One of Minnesota's best loved writers, Faith Sullivan was born and raised in southern Minnesota, and is the author of four novels set in the fictional town of Harvester, Minnesota: Gardenias (2005), What a Woman Must Do (2002), The Empress of One (1997) and The Cape Ann (1988). Before these she published a contemporary fantasy, Mrs. Demming and The Mythical Beast (1988), a thriller, Watchdog (1983) and the humorous Repent, Lanny Merkel (1981, with deep debt, she says, to PG Wodehouse -- and now on Kindle), also all set in Minnesota. Devoted to her readers, Sullivan estimates that she has visited over 1,000 different book clubs to speak about her books. She lived twenty-some years in New York and Los Angeles, returning to Minnesota often to keep her roots planted in the prairie. A "demon gardener, flea marketer, and feeder of birds," she currently lives with her husband in Minneapolis. They have three grown children.