A secret writer from a dramatic blue-collar neighborhood, Marie White Small brings her skill as a florist, waitress, antiquarian bookseller, bookbinder, cook, and pie baker to the page. She studied at The Center for Book Arts in NYC and is the founder and moderator of a community literary critique group, North Gotham Writers, for more than ten years. Ms. Small also served as the writer-in-residence at a Vermont mountaintop writer's retreat, She has published short fiction in the anthology, Southshire Pepper-Pot (Lion's Mark Press, 2007) Stony Kill is her debut novel. She and her family live in Bennington, Vermont.