Susanne Dunlap is the author of nine historical novels for adults and teens. Her young adult novel The Musicians Daughter was a Junior Library Guild selection and a Bank Street Childrens Book of the Year, and it was nominated for the Missouri Gateway Readers Prize and the Utah Book Award. Her latest novels, Listen to the Wind and The Spirit of Fire are the first volumes of a medieval trilogy for adults, The Orphans of Tolosa. Listen to the Wind is a semi-finalist for the Chaucer Awards for Pre-1750 Historical Fiction and a Distinguished Favorite in the NYC Big Book Awards. Susanne has a PhD in music history from Yale University.