I grew up in New York City, a place I hold close to my heart and love to write about. When I was 23 I moved with my husband to western Massachusetts because it was "a compromise between Brooklyn and the Ozarks." We currently live in a 350 year old house next door to a dairy farm with our two children, dog, and cat. I love to walk in the woods near my house, and a big impetus in writing ESCAPING INTO THE NIGHT was imagining how the woods could be home. And like Gus and Liza in PLAYING DAD'S SONG, a typical family scene at our house might be any two of us discussing what type of hot sauce to use with the sounds of oboe, violin or piano in the background.