Michelle Huneven is the author of three novels --Blame, Jamesland and Round Rock. Her nonfiction writings includes restaurant reviews for the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Weekly, other food journalism and, with Bernadette Murphy, the Tao Gals Guide to Real Estate. She has received a General Electric Foundation Award for Younger Writers and a Whiting Writers' Award for fiction. Michelle lives in Altadena, California with her husband, Jim Potter.