AUTHOR: Teri Fink's writing has won literary awards for both fiction and nonfiction, including winning 2nd Place for the prestigious PNWA Nancy Pearl Award for Literary Fiction, and 1st Place for nonfiction in the PNWA Literary Contest. Teri spent her early childhood years in Redondo Beach, California, before her family traded the beaches of the Pacific Coast for the apple orchards of Wenatchee, Washington. Her career has taken her from librarian, to corporate writer, and communications officer before becoming a novelist. She's a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association (PNWA) and Write on the River. Teri and her husband live on beautiful Lake Chelan in central Washington State.