Riane Menardi Morrison is a modern quilter and designer making minimal quilts for the modern home. Her work and writing has been featured in several magazines including QuiltCon Magazine, Modern Patchwork, Simply Moderne and Quilting Arts, and Riane is a coauthor of the book Modern Quilts: Designs of the New Century. She lives and works in Des Moines with her husband, Kevin, and silly pup, Dallas.