My legal name is Stephanie Laura Lunden. 'Stephanie' in Italian is something like 'stefanya' and when I was young my grandmother took 'anya' off the end of the 'stefanya' and started calling me it. (No, my family is not Italian (my grandmother was Danish) but my mother had heard my name pronounced in Italian when I was little, liked it, and called me it sometimes.) I grew up in a era of Stephanie's and so I adopted Anya as distinct and short. My maiden name is Hogoboom, and some of my early publications are under this last name.