Lisa Daly is a licensed clinical social worker who spent sixteen years counseling families before focusing on a career in writing. Her story, "Road to Dreamland", was published in Kansas City Voices Magazine in 2010. She won first place in the OWFI Contest for one of her short stories and second place in the WOW Women on Writing Contest for another story, that one being published online. This is her debut novel. She lives in Kansas City with her husband and their six-year-old daughter.