Elisabeth Nonas is the author of three previously published novels and the forthcoming Grace Period. She has written several screenplays as well as short stories, magazine articles, essays, and coauthored with Simon LeVay the nonfiction City of Friends: A Portrait of the Gay and Lesbian Community in America. She taught screenwriting and writing for emerging media at Ithaca College for 25 years. Originally from New York City, she lives in Ithaca, New York, with her spouse, Nancy K. Bereano, founding publisher and editor of Firebrand Books.