I love living in the woods of northwest lower Michigan and receiving stories directly from nature. Nature gave me the crows that begin Dead Dancing Women; the low lake levels and the skeletons of Dead Floating Lovers; the unearthly place in the woods of book three, and the tent-worms: the overweening metaphor of book 4. My other work includes Gift of Evil (Bantam), history books, short stories in lit mags world-wide; work done on stage, and on radio. I teach writing at a local college and at Skidmore College for the International Womens Writing Guild. I write for the Northern Express Magazine and am on the Michigan State Library's committee to choose the best Michigan books of the year.Both books of the Emily Kincaid series (currently out) have been well reviewed by Library Journal, PW, Booklist, Kirkus, Mystery Scene Magazine, Traverse City Record Eagle, Northern Express, Detroit Metro Times, and others.I am a member of Michigan Writers, Detroit Working Writers, International Women's Writing Guild, Sisters in Crime, and also a member of The International Crime Writers Association. I love hearing from readers and hope you'll contact me at my website: www.elizabethbuzzelli.com where Emily Kincaid, Deputy Dolly, and I all blog.