Nan Kopitnik is a Board-Certified Addiction Medicine Physician and an Attorney admitted to the Florida Bar. She pilots programs for incarcerated as well as homeless citizens with substance use disorders. She also serves as an editor for several online medical resources. She has published articles in medical journals, lectured at national meetings on addiction, and counseled numerous families. 

She is the author of four children's books. Her most recent children's book, Shy Sam the Wolfdog, chronicles the true story of a Florida family that integrates a wolfdog into their life. The book is accompanied by teaching pages for both children and adults.

She loves to weave relationship issues into exciting adventure stories. She also authors humorous stories and scripts. From the age of seven, she was a great fan of the novels of Patrick Dennis and Ernest Hemingway, which she read under her covers with a flashlight. Her favorite destination is the Hemingway House in Key West, Florida. 

She is the author of The Clockwork Adventure Series, a dystopian young adult series which pivots around a Florida teen who travels to a Victorian Steampunk land in search of a missing family member. He encounters mysterious flying machines, robotic insects, and lethal automaton robots controlled by a fascist dictator. The citizens are captive and searching for a new leader. Should he risk everything and champion a rebellion?  The Search for Norwall, and Circles of the Realm are the first two full-length novels in the series. The third installment is in production now. 

She is currently completing the sequel to The Mayhem and Medical Mischief of Dr. Olivia Day, a series of short horror stories detailing the adventures of a home-visiting physician and her trusty assistant Mr. MacKenzie, who encounter spooky situations in their daily assignments. The stories began as a novella of scary stories, but at the urging of her fans, she developed the adventure into a mystery thriller series, The Messy Life of Dr. Olivia Day. 
 
Her latest achievement is the completion of the Masters of Fine Arts Creative Writing Degree Program at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida.  She also is an annual vendor at Megacon Orlando, Tampa Bay Comic-Con, and Holiday Matsuri, Orlando, where she sells books and merchandise from her company, TinyDog Books.  She is the keeper of toy robots and one remarkable tinydog.  She is the handler of five large, rescue parrots that bite with reckless abandon. She is most happily the mother of two very exceptional and industrious children.