Susan Bishop Crispell earned a BFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Born and raised in the mountains of Tennessee, she now lives twenty minutes from the beach in North Carolina with her husband and their two cats, Whisky and Bourbon. She is very fond of baked goods and is always on the lookout for hints of magic in the real world. She is also the author of The Holloway Girls. Visit her online at susanbishopcrispell.com