Jodi Lew-smithJodi Lew-Smith lives on a hill farm in the rural "Northeast Kingdom" of Vermont with her husband, dog, chickens, and 250 apple trees. Her grown children come and go, staying long enough to make her laugh. She has always been a writer but also enjoys biology, which comes out in her fiction. She holds a bachelor's in English literature, a master's in botany, and a doctorate in molecular genetics and works as a biocurator for a genomic database. Her stories and essays have appeared in various journals, including a story in The Wax Paper that was nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize. Her novel The Clever Mill Horse won the 2014 James River Writers Indie Novel Contest, the 2014 Feathered Quill Book Awards prize for historical fiction, and the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Awards prize for historical fiction. Read More Read Less