Following in her mother’s footsteps, ninety-year-old Paula O’Neil is a retired piano teacher. Published in many magazines, Paula’s writing successes include Clavier, American Music Teacher, House Beautiful, Columbus Dispatch Sunday Supplement, Country Style, Adventure, Highlights for Children, as well as winning the Writer’s Digest Fiction Competition early in her career.

Married sixty-four years, Paula lives with her husband in Colorado.

Valley of the Moon is the author’s first novel.