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Sarah Perry

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Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979, and was raised as a Strict Baptist. Having studied English at Anglia Ruskin University she worked as a civil servant before studying for an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Creative Writing and the Gothic at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2004 she won the Spectator's Shiva Naipaul Award for travel writing. In January 2013 she was Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library. Here she completed the final draft of her first novel, , which was published by Serpent's Tail in June 2014 to international critical acclaim. It won the East Anglian Book of the Year...

John D. Nesbitt

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John D. Nesbitt lives in the plains country of Wyoming, where he teaches English and Spanish at Eastern Wyoming College. He has had ten short fiction collections, four contemporary western novels, and thirty traditional western novels published in various hardbound, large print, audio, and mass-market paperback editions. He has also written textbooks and course manuals for his courses as well as a guide to writing fiction and a Boise State Western Writers Series booklet on Robert Roripaugh. Nesbitt has won many prizes and awards for his work, including three awards from the Wyoming State Historical Society (for...