The Gates of Evangeline

Hester Young holds a master's degree in English with a creative writing concentration from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and her short stories have appeared in magazines such as Hawai'i Review. Before turning to writing full-time, she worked as a teacher in Arizona and New Hampshire. She is also the author of the forthcoming novel The Shimmering Road. Young lives in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, with her husband and their two children.