Dorothy Van Soest is a professor emerita and former university dean with four previous novels published by Apprentice House Press-Nuclear Option (2021 winner of Reader Views and IPPY awards), Death, Unchartered (2018 winner of an American Fiction Award), At the Center (2015) and Just Mercy (2014)-in addition to eight nonfiction books and over fifty journal articles, essays, and book chapters. Van Soest and her wife live in Seattle. www.dorothyvansoest.com
