Russell M. Cera is a retired schoolteacher who lives in West Islip, New York with his wife Linda. His passions include cooking, gardening, the great outdoors, and writing. He is the author of Cry Wolf, Cry, the highly praised novel that has lifted the gray wolf from fiction's malevolence into the realm of truth. His second book, Fruit of the Bad Seed, is a novel based on more truth than fiction. It is story of a of a teacher's struggles to survive the pitfalls of the turbulent 1960s and '70s. Russ is also the author of the anthology, A Collection of Outdoor Stories.