Jew­ish-Amer­i­can author Ter­ri Paul grew up sur­round­ed by a fam­i­ly of sto­ry­tellers with heavy East­ern-Euro­pean accents. She cur­rent­ly lives in Colum­bus, Ohio with her hus­band. Before becom­ing a writer, she was a social work­er, a col­lege pro­fes­sor, and a com­put­er pro­gram­mer. She has won numer­ous awards for her work, includ­ing an Ohio Arts Coun­cil Indi­vid­ual Artist’s Fel­low­ship, the Friends of Amer­i­can Writ­ers, the Ohioana Book Award in Fic­tion, and the Colum­bus Lit­er­ary Award in Fiction.