About the Author

Lisa Taggart has been a staff travel writer for Sunset Magazine for the past seven years, where she edits a regular travel section. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and Harvard University. She lives with her husband in Santa Clara, CA. Samantha Schoech's fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Seventeen, Gettysburg Review, and Glimmer Train. She is an editor at Marin Magazine and lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.