Marianne Monson spent her childhood obsessed with both books and fairies, and was thrilled when those two passions converged in Finding Fairies, her first published book. Over the past twenty years, she's published eleven more books, mainly focused on women's history in the frontier era. She's the founder of the literary nonprofit The Writer's Guild and writes from a hundred year old house in Astoria, Oregon. You can find her at: www.mariannemonson.com.