Born in Gloversville, NY, Dahris Clair spent her early years on a farm in Sacandaga, the backdrop for her novel. A love of reading fostered a desire to write, beginning with stories for her children and escalating to free-lance articles for a New Jersey weekly. As editor/writer of a south Florida publication, she experimented with a serialized version of Slocum Road. The positive reception by the readership encouraged her to develop the story into the novel it is today. Presently at work on another novel, Dahris lives with her husband, Carl Aden, Annie, their Basenji, and two cats, Ginger and Baxter, on the Gulf Coast of Florida.