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Laura McNeal is a freelance journalist and former English teacher. She is married to the author Tom McNeal and they live in Southern California. McNeal has published short stories and essays in The Quarterly, The Georgia Review, The Threepenny Review, Sunset, and the San Diego Reader. Some of her books include Dark Water, The Incident on the Bridge, and The Practice House. 

Tom McNeal is the critically acclaimed author of many short stories and the novel Goodnight, Nebraska, winner of the 1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize. He holds an MA in creative writing from UC Irvine and was a Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. McNeal is married to fellow writer Laura, with whom he has written a number of young adult novels. They live in Fallbrook, California. To learn more, visit mcnealbooks.com.