Susan Stinson is the author of four novels and a collection of poetry and lyric essays. Her work has appeared in anthologies from Ballantine Books, NYU Press and Scholastic Books, and in many periodicals, including The Common, Early American Studies and Kenyon Review. She has received the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation. Currently Writer in Residence at Forbes Library in Northampton, MA, she is also a freelance editor, writing coach and gives cemetery tours. She lives across the street from the cemetery where many of people who appear as fictional characters in her novel Spider in at Tree are buried.