Joy E Moses-Hall

Joy E. Moses-Hall lives in Greenville, North Carolina with her husband and three daughters, nearby physically but as far as possible psychically from her character, Cassie Johnson, who exists in isolation, living off the land and eating 'possum, taking revenge on those who wronged her.

Joy grew up in upstate New York, attended the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, and has a Master's Degree in physical oceanography from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she met her husband, Rick, an expert trapper-turned-scientist. She earned a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware. She teaches physics, astronomy, and Earth science at Pitt Community College in Winterville, North Carolina.