Mari Hestekin is the pen name of editor Mari Farthing. She is a long-time lover of words and is thrilled to make her fiction debut with the short story "Midnight Troll" in the YA "Something Wicked" anthology (October 2012, Buzz Books). When not writing stories that may or may not involve trolls, she spends her time editing stories, books and her children's school work. Mari is also a local parenting magazine editor. In her spare time she cooks, knits, runs and contributes to various and sundry blogs about things which matter to her, including (but not limited to) books, music, writing, editing, parenting, pop culture and general absurdity.Mari lives, writes, edits and dances with impunity with her husband and two children, who supply no shortage of drama from which to pull stories.