B.D. Gates is a northern-born, southern-raised writer who has always been told to "write what you know." What she knows is warm spring nights under the lights of the ball-field, four-wheeling, fire pits, fishing, and real southern women, the strong, no-nonsense kind. She currently lives with two dogs and three cats in a small rural town much like the one she writes about. B.D. Gates writes about Bishop & Tess and all their friends in Tenley in the lesfic "Bishop's Run" series.