Author J.D. Shaw is a 2008 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop run by Jeanne Cavelos, former senior editor at Bantam Doubleday Dell. During his six weeks in the program, he worked alongside such award-winning authors as Barry B. Longyear and Nancy Kress. He lives in Elmira, NY and is hard at work on his next novel in the Vivienne Finch Magical Mysteries.