Christina Clancy is the author of Shoulder Season and The Second Home (optioned by Sony TriStar for a limited series starring Nicolaj Coster-Waldau from Game of Thrones). Her short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times "Modern Love" column, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Sun Magazine, and in literary journals like Glimmer Train Stories, Hobart, Pleiades, The Minnesota Review and on Wisconsin Public Radio. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Born in Denver and raised in Milwaukee, she currently live in Madison, Wisconsin and spends time in East Troy and Palm Springs. You can find out more on her website, http://www.christiclancywrites.com