Sara J. Henry's first novel, LEARNING TO SWIM, has been called "an auspicious debut" by Daniel Woodrell (WINTER'S BONE) and "emotional, intense, and engrossing" by Lisa Unger - it won the Anthony and Agatha awards for best first novel and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. Her second, A COLD AND LONELY PLACE, which Julia Spencer-Fleming calls "a deeply atmospheric, seductive read and a captivating literary mysterym" won the Silver Falchion award and is nominated for the Anthony Award for best novel - up against Robert Crais, William Kent Krueger, Hank Phillippi Ryan, and Julia Spencer-Fleming.Sara has written for Prevention, Adirondack Life, Bicycling, Triathlete, and other magazines, was an editor at Rodale Books and Women's Sports & Fitness magazine, wrote and co-wrote health and fitness books, and was a newspaper and magazine editor. A native of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Sara now lives on a dirt road in southern Vermont.