J.A. McPhail is a writer and published author. She is a graduate of the Rubart Writing Academy, a member of the Association of Christian Fiction Writers, and the North Carolina Storytelling Guild. J.A. McPhail is a native of Kansas and a former public library director. She married her high school sweetheart, Dennis McPhail, a high school counselor, choral director, and coach. For over three decades they sang Southern Gospel music with the Messengers Quartet in Kansas, and later with their daughter Stacie as The Macs in North Carolina. Now the McPhail's write books and songs from their retirement home in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina.