Ursula Merchant Ursula Merchant Ursula Merchant (born September 10, 1932 in Rostock) is a German Las Vegas-based performance artist, conceptual artist, carpenter. She is probably best known for her series 'Forkin' Hell'. Merchant was born "Ursula S. Wernerberger" in post-war Rostock. Her parents were of Russian extraction. Her father abandoned Ursula and her mother early in Ursula's youth, when he returned from a prisoner of war camp after World War II. Her family moved to a remote village in the Black Mountains of Switzerland after the house next to theirs was destroyed during the bombing at the close of World War II.
Ursula Vernon Ursula Vernon Ursula Vernon (born May 28, 1977) is an American freelance writer, artist and illustrator. She is best known for her Hugo Award-winning graphic novel "Digger" (2003–2011) and for the children's books "Dragonbreath" and "Nurk: The Strange, Surprising Adventures of a (Somewhat) Brave Shrew". Vernon is the creator of "Hamster Princess", "The Biting Pear of Salamanca", a digital work of art which became an internet meme in the form of the "LOL WUT pear". Under the name "T. Kingfisher", she is also the author of several books for older audiences. Ursula Vernon grew up in Oregon and Arizona and