KATE CHRISTENSEN has published nine novels, including
The Great Man, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, and most recently
Welcome Home, Stranger and
The Arizona Triangle, as well as two food-centric memoirs,
Blue Plate Special and
How to Cook a Moose, which won the Maine Literary Award for Memoir. She lives in Taos, New Mexico, with her husband and their two dogs.
MELISSA HENDERSON is an essayist and novelist whose work has appeared in
The Los Angeles Times,
The Cauldron, and
Brand X. She's working on her next YA series and lives in the Scottish hills with her husband and their two catbeasts.