AnnaLee Conti is an author, teacher, and ordained minister. She resides in the Mid-Hudson River Valley with her husband, Bob. Together, they have pastored churches in New York State for the last 35 years. Her experiences growing up in a missionary family in Alaska during the fifties and sixties provide inspiration for her writing. AnnaLee has also published numerous short stories, articles, devotionals, and church school curriculum. Till the Storm Passes By is the first book in her Alaskan Waters Trilogy.