MaryLee McNeal is a teacher and a writer of fiction and poetry. Her novel, Home Again, Home Again won San Francisco State University’s 1989 Clark award, and her poetry chapbook, The Space Between Us won the Bear Mountains Press award for poetry in 2002. Two stories from her manuscript of linked short stories, under the title of Another Wyoming, have been award winners. She teaches at various places in the San Francisco Bay area, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She is currently working on a second novel and a poetry manuscript.