Edie Claire has always loved a good story. Good storytelling, in her opinion, does not require "flash," it does not aim for shock value, and it does not pitch to the current cultural least-common denominator. Good storytelling is about entertaining readers with challenging puzzles and subtle humor, or touching their hearts with realistic characters whose intriguing and varied emotional journeys always serve, in the end, to uplift.

Edie Claire has lived in various states in the South and Midwest and has worked at more jobs (paid and unpaid) than she can count, including veterinarian, childbirth education instructor, medical/technical writer, corporate communications writer, freelance copyeditor, camp counselor, church administrative council leader, community theater diva, birthparent mentor, hospital volunteer, mother of three, wife, laundress, housekeeper (although she stinks at that one), pet collector, coordinator of child sponsorship for a Christian mission in Kenya, choir member (she's pretty marginal at that too), and last but not least--she once spent an entire summer cleaning toilets at a ranch in New Mexico.

When she's not doing the above, she writes novels and plays. And she really hopes that you enjoy them.