Vitucci grew up in Hamilton County in SW OH. She and her family well knew the Fernald Feed Materials Plant and its surrounding countryside, which is the focus of SALT OF PATRIOTS. The novel has its genesis in family stories of her uncles, who worked at the atomic plant in its early years. She has been writing and publishing since 1990. Her 1st novel, AT BOBBY TRIVETTE’S GRAVE, features the Cane Ridge Shrine in Paris, KY. IN EUPHORIA & ALL SOULS are her most recent books. Having relocated to the NC piedmont, she's currently at work on a novella, the writing of which sometimes makes her ill--Which means she's hitting a big nerve.