Alison McBain is a former contributor and the previous website manager of Reader's Abode. She lives in Connecticut, where she is raising three girls and her husband. She is an award-winning author with more than sixty short stories and poems published. When not writing, she practices origami meditation and draws all over the walls of her house with the enthusiastic help of her kids. And once in a while, she puts on her Book Reviews Editor hat for the magazine Bewildering Stories.