Susan Breen is the author of the Maggie Dove mystery series, originally published by the Alibi digital imprint of Penguin Random House and now rereleased by Under the Oak Press. Her first novel, The Fiction Class, also published by Penguin Random House, won a Westchester Library Association Washington Irving Award for readability, literary quality, and wide general appeal. Her short stories have been published in Best American Nonrequired Reading, as well as an assortment of magazines ranging from American Literary Review and The Chattahoochee Review to Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. She has a story forthcoming in the anthology Murder Most Diabolical, introduced by Walter Mosley. Susan teaches novel-writing and does editing work with Gotham Writers in Manhattan. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, two sweet dogs (cockapoos) and two slightly hostile cats. Her three children are flourishing elsewhere. You can find more information about her at www.susanjbreen.com.