Lisa Saunders is an award-winning writer and T.V. host living in Mystic, Connecticut, with her husband and beagle/basset hound. She works as a part-time history interpreter at Mystic Seaport. A graduate of Cornell University, she is the author of several books and winner of the National Council for Marketing & Public Relations Gold Medallion. She is the Congenital CMV Foundation parent representative and member of the Mystic River Historical Society and Daughters of the American Revolution.