Poet, travel writer and novelist Linda Watanabe McFerrin (www.lwmcferrin.com), has been traveling since she was two and writing about it since she was six. A contributor to numerous journals, newspapers, magazines, anthologies and online publications, she is the author of two poetry collections, an award-winning novel (Namako: Sea Cucumber) and short story collection (The Hand of Buddha), and the editor of a travel guidebook (Best Places Northern California,4th ed.) and four literary anthologies. A past winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction she teaches and leads workshops in fiction and creative non-fiction and she is NOT afraid of the dark.Her most recent book is Dead Love, a supernatural thriller set in Asia, due out from Stone Bridge Press in September 2010 and now available for Pre-Order. The Dead Love serialization, along with near-zombie Erin's Daily Slice, are both online at http://www/deadlovebook.com.