Amy Sutherland is the author of "Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched" and "Cookoff." Her articles have appeared in "The New York Times, Los Angeles Times," and T"he Boston Globe." She has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. Her feature piece "What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage," on which this book is based, was the most viewed and most e-mailed article of "The New York Times "online in 2006. Sutherland divides her time between Boston and Portland, Maine.