Linda Lappin, the author of two prize-winning novels, THE ETRUSCAN and Katherine's Wish, was born in Kingsport, Tennessee. She received her B.A. from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, and her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop where she also worked as a translation assistant to the International Writing Program. A former Fulbright fellow to Italy, she currently divides her time between the US and Italy, where she has taught English in Italian universities for over twenty years. Her essays, reviews, and short fiction appear regularly in US periodicals. Her short fiction has been broadcast by the BBC World Service Radio. She is at work on a second Daphne Dublanc mystery novel, Melusine, set in Bolsena and on a memoir, entitled Postcards from a Tuscan Interior.