Louella Bryant is the bestselling author of eleven books, including Sheltering Angel, Based on a True Story of the Titanic and her most recent novel, Willie Rum Running Queen, a fictionalized story of true-life bootlegger Willie Carter Sharpe. Her nonfiction book While In Darkness There Is Light, a biography of Charlie Dean, brother to former DNC Chairman Howard Dean, won the SouthWest Writers Award for Nonfiction. Her other books include novels for adults and young adults as well as an award-winning collection of stories. Louella’s short stories, poems and essays, have appeared in magazines and online. Formerly on the faculty of the Spalding University MFA in Writing Program, Louella now works as an independent editor in Vermont.