Emily Dietrich wrote her first poems when she was six and has gone on to become a novelist, poet, and essayist. She is the author of Holding True, a novel about a group of civil rights activists from the '60s to today, and the story author of The Year of Puzzles. Her previous publications include The Case of the Missing Mask and Other Stories (a book of puzzle mystery stories), as well as pieces in Ms. Magazine, Historic Women of Michigan, SeattleWoman, Seattle's Child, and elsewhere. Emily is a Green Griffin.
