Cameron D. Garriepy attended a small Vermont college in a town very like Thornton. She’s missed it since the day she packed up her Subaru and drove off into the real world. Some might say she created the fictional village as wish fulfillment, and they would be correct. She is the author of the Thornton Vermont series, and the founder of Bannerwing Books, a co-op of independent authors. Prior to Bannerwing, Cameron was an editor at Write on Edge, where she curated three volumes of the online writing group's annual literary anthology, Precipice. Cameron appeared in the inaugural cast of Listen to Your Mother–Boston, and irregularly contributes flash fiction to the Word Count Podcast. Since her time at Middlebury College, Cameron has worked as a nanny, a pastry cook, an event ticket resale specialist, a ghost-blogger in the finance and AV/tech sectors, and an office manager for a financial startup. When she's not writing, Cameron is an archer, knitter, baker, and gardener. She lives in the greater Boston area with her husband, son, a pug named after a salad topping, and four naughty hens.