English teacher by day, tale spinner by night, Jo Victor is old enough to know better but still too young to care. She has been writing more or less seriously since she was in her teens, and likes to think she is carrying on the family storytelling tradition that goes back to her Italian grandmother. When not fighting the good fight on behalf of black ink on white paper, she enjoys folk music, British humor, and excessive novel reading, all of which she highly recommends. She lives with her life partner in Virginia.