Teresa Rhyne is the #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of The Dog Lived (and So Will I) and its sequel The Dogs Were Rescued (and So Was I), which was awarded the Pat Santi Memorial Friend of Animals Award by the Dog Writers Association of America. She was awarded The Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian of the Year by the Riverside Humane Society Pet Adoption Center in 2008 and lives in Los Angeles with her beagles.