Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum is the author of the novel, A Day of Small Beginnings (Little, Brown & Co., 2006), a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. She is a writer and dramaturge for Jewish Women’s Theatre in Los Angeles, which presents original, themed performance pieces for at-home salons and in venues across the country. She is also completing her next novel King of Cahokia, about the destruction of ancient Indian mounds at Cahokia, Illinois, the Blacklist, America’s interstate highways, and oh yes, love. Lisa lives in Pacific Palisades, California. She attended the Community of Writers in 2001. www.lisapearlrosenbaum.com