Anne DeGrace is the author of four novels: Treading Water, Wind Tails, Sounding Line, and Flying with Amelia. Her resume includes stints as an illustrator, journalist, bookseller, publisher, and librarian. DeGrace lives with her partner, three dogs, and a dozen chickens near Nelson, British Columbia, where she writes in a hillside studio with a view of a lake, mountains, and the occasional elk.