Mary Carroll Moore is the author of 13 books in three genres, including a YA novel, two memoirs, and many nonfiction books. Her writing craft book, Your Book Starts Here (Riverbed Press) won the New Hampshire Literary Awards People's Choice and her novel, Qualities of Light, was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner. Over 200 of her essays, short stories, poems, and articles have appeared in publications around the US, Canada, and abroad. For twelve years she wrote a syndicated column for the Los Angeles Times. She teaches writing at GrubStreet, the Loft Literary Center, and Madeline Island School of the Arts.