Barb Bentler Ullman is the author of the highly praised The Fairies of Nutfolk Wood. She lives with her family--husband Jim, two daughters, and a vicious kitty named Apricot--in a house that her husband built in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. "My daughter Sara once came up with the idea for an American woodland fairy. She was glue-gunning acorns together and calling them 'nut babies.' They resided in pretty places in our woods, living quiet, natural lives. One thing led to another."