Cynn Chadwick is the author of the Cat Rising Series: Cat Rising, Girls With Hammers, and Babies, Bikes, and Broads, as well as the novels Angels & Manners, As The Table Turns, That's Karma, Baby...., and the soon to be released Then Came Jake (2016). Her books have been nominated for the Lambda, Golden Crown, and Stonewall Literary Awards. She holds an MFA from Goddard College and teaches in the creative writing and masters programs at UNCA-Asheville. She lives in the crack of an ass of a mountain with her mate, Elenna, and their furbuddies, Seamus the Weimaraner, and Jimmy Mack the Mouser.