Originally a native of North Carolina, Linda Annas Ferguson now makes her home in Charleston, South Carolina. Before becoming a novelist, she authored and published five collections of poetry and was a past Poetry Fellow for the South Carolina Arts Commission. She was also a past recipient of the Poetry Fellowship of the South Carolina Academy of Authors, a Poet-in-Residence for the Gibbes Museum of Art, and a featured writer at the Library of Congress Poetry at Noon Series. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Beyond Forgetting: Prose and Poetry About Alzheimer’s Disease (Kent State University Press) and Seeking: Prose and Poetry Inspired by Art (University of South Carolina Press). Her work is archived in the Furman University Special Collections at the James B. Duke Library.