Madona Skaff-Koren is a Canadian mystery and science fiction author with several published short stories. She writes the Naya Investigates series about a young woman disabled by multiple sclerosis, who turns sleuth to solve crimes. The character was inspired by the author's own multiple sclerosis diagnosis. Her stand alone novel, Shifting Trust, is a high tech thriller set 25 years in the future. When a Canadian scientist is kidnapped in England, Tyler Demir ignores military orders and sets out on his own to rescue him. Madona's life long dream to publish in the Star Trek universe was finally realized with her article about Number One published in Women Take The Conn: essays by women writing about the women of Trek. She also has a story in the Deep Space 9, 30th anniversary collection, Outside In: Can Live With It.