Janet Burroway is the author of eight novels, including "The Buzzards" and "Raw Silk"; two best-selling textbooks, "Writing Fiction" and "Imaginative Writing"; and the forthcoming memoir "Losing Tim". She is also the author of numerous plays, short stories, poetry collections, and children s books. She is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at Florida State University and divides her time between Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and Chicago.