Beth Buechler spent most of her adult life in rural Maine homesteading, restaurant working, running two businesses, and ultimately teaching adult education. She attained an MA in English from the University of Maine at Orono, where she also won the Steve Grady Award for fiction as an undergraduate. Now living with her second husband and their bullmastiff in Indiana, besides writing she organizes two fiction-writing groups, a monthly book club, and teaches part-time for senior learners. Her genres span from children's books and Jewish folk tales to mainstream/contemporary fiction, ghost stories, a ghost novella, and a somewhat paranormal novella she describes as Covid lit.