About the Author

Joan Beesley is a Denver writer born in Brooklyn, New York. A former English teacher and telecommunications manager, Joan worked on her Ph. D. in English at the University of Denver after a stint with Time-Life Books in New York. Joan's other works include "Hothouse Flowers", a novel about pediatric cancer survival, "Lot's Wife", a collection of poetry based on the journal Joan kept during her daughter's bone marrow transplant, "Witchbox, A Collection of Short Stories", and a new novel, "Forty Shades of Green" about a Brooklyn immigrant who rose from scrapman to millionaire. Joan's books are also available as e-books on Kindle.