Corinne Malcolm Ibeling grew up in the Midwest. Her experiences living in small-town Iowa served as inspiration for the setting and characters in this novel. Rebecca Inch-Partridge (a.k.a R.I. Partridge) is a freelance editor, who lives in Auburn, Ca. She specializes in speculative fiction, mysteries, and memoirs. Her first novel Escaping the Dashia debuted in March 2023