Maureen O'Leary is a writer and teacher living in Sacramento, California, with her husband and daughters. She was at work in an old brick building in downtown Santa Cruz when the Loma Prieta earthquake hit, sending her ducking for cover under a big oak desk. She loves writing, teaching, public speaking, and hiking in redwood forests and desert canyons. Her fiction has appeared in Esopus, Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine, Prick of the Spindle, Xenith, Fiction at Work and in an anthology from Shade Mountain Press. Her YA novel How to Be Manly was released by Giant Squid Books in 2014. The Ghost Daughter is her second novel.
