Laura Hetzel is an award-winning poet and has written six novels, including the Berlin Evers series: Its Own Defense, Ripples and What the Darkness Fears. Her newest novel is the Southern gothic voodoo/ghost story Wisteria. She is also the author of the young adult novel Breakwall and the novella Neon Neverland. When she's not writing, she enjoys watching scary movies and spending time with her husband, their cats and their bulldog.