Stephanie Gildart writes fantasy and science fiction, imagining worlds of wonder and hope. She received her dual MA/MFA degree in Children's Literature and Writing for Children from Simmons University. She finds some of her own hope by doing crochet, an art form where she can transform a strand of yarn into something magnificent-and when everything goes awry and she can't figure out where she made her mistakes, it's as simple as unraveling the project until she's back to where everything made sense and building from there. There might be a metaphor about learning, adapting, and growing through adversity there somewhere. She lives in Maryland with one wonderful husband and two snuggly lap dogs.
