Mary Carroll MooreMary Carroll Moore is the best-selling author of the Amazon bestselling novel, A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue, and the PEN/Faulkner and Lambda Literary award nominated queer YA novel, Qualities of Light. She received her MFA from Goddard College nd has taught throughout the US and abroad at various writing schools and universities since 1998. Her writing craft book, Your Book Starts Here, won the New Hampshire Literary Awards "Reader's Choice" award. Before moving into fiction, she had a two-decade career in the food world as chef, cooking-school owner, cookbook author, and syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Her first cookbook won a Julia Child/IACP award. Over two hundred of her essays, stories, and articles have appeared in magazines and literary journals. She lives in New Hampshire with her family. Read More Read Less