Beverley Brenna is a Saskatchewan special education teacher who lives on an acreage near Saskatoon with her husband and three sons. Her previous titles include Daddy Longlegs at Birch Lane (Smithsonian, 1996), Spider Summer (Nelson, 1998) and The Keeper of the Trees (Ronsdale Press, 1999). Other YA short stories appear in anthologies such as Ronsdale's Winds Through Time and her short fiction for adults has been produced by CBC Radio.