Meredith Sue WillisMeredith Sue Willis was born and bred in West Virginia where both of her parents were school teachers. Her mother's father was a witness to the Monongah Mine explosion of 1907 in Monongah, West Virginia. Her father�s mother was a country store keeperin Wise County, Virginia. Willis has published more than twenty books of fiction and nonfiction and is a veteran writer-in-the schools. She presently teaches novel writing at New York University�s School of Professional Studies and volunteers with an anti-racist organization in the inner ring suburb of New Jersey where she lives. Read More Read Less