Jennifer M. Lane has a master’s in museum studies from the University of Delaware where she wrote her thesis on the material culture of roadside memorials. She is a member of the Authors Guild and the Historical Novel Society, and her first book, Of Metal and Earth, won the 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Award for First Novel and was a finalist in the 2018 IAN book of the year awards in the category of general / literary fiction. She is the author of several books including Stick Figures from Rockport, The Collected Stories of Ramsbolt series, and Downriver.