Jeanne McWilliams Blas­berg is an award-win­ning author and essay­ist. Her nov­el, The Nine, was hon­ored with the 2019 Fore­word Indies Gold Award in Thriller & Sus­pense, and the Gold Medal and Juror’s Choice in the 2019 Nation­al Indie Excel­lence Awards. She co-chairs the board of the Boston Book Fes­ti­val and serves on the Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee of Grub Street, one of the country’s pre­em­i­nent cre­ative writ­ing cen­ters. She splits her time between Park City, UT, and grow­ing organ­ic veg­eta­bles on her farm in Verona, WI.