Rachel Grant worked for over a decade as a professional archaeologist and mines her experiences for storylines and settings, which are as diverse as excavating a cemetery underneath an historic art museum in San Francisco; surveying an economically depressed coal mining town in Kentucky; and mapping a seventeenth century Spanish and Dutch fort on the island of Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. At present, she is working on a novel based on her experiences researching a unique house with surprising connections to historical figures in the Washington, D.C. area. The dead body in the basement tied to a prominent senator is a product of her own imagination.
In all her travels and adventures as an archaeologist, Rachel has found many sites and artifacts, but she’s only found one true treasure, her husband, David. They met while working together excavating a four thousand year old site about to be destroyed by the expansion of a sewage treatment plant in Seattle. Despite their romantic first meeting, she has no intention of ever setting a story at a sewage treatment plant. Rachel lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and children.
Mary Sullivan is currently an adjunct professor of anthropology at Palm Beach Community College. She received her master's degree in anthropology from the University of Mississippi, where she focused her research on using geophysics methods to find clandestine prehistoric and historic sites in the northern Ecuadorian highlands. Mary continues to do fieldwork in Ecuador with the Pambamarca Archaeology Project. The textbook she is co-authoring, A Case Study in Archaeology Fieldwork: A Student's Perspective, will be released in the fall of 2009.
Prior to her work at the college, Mary was employed in the private sector as a contract archaeologist in Hawai`i. While in the Islands, Mary's other duties included being managing editor for the scholarly publication, Hawaiian Archaeology, as well as sitting on the board of the Society for Hawaiian Archaeology. Mary has done fieldwork in Fiji, Belize, Mississippi, and other sites in the South.
Finally, if you noticed a correlation between writing and archaeology, you might be onto something:) Mary's Golden Heart® finalist manuscript, Love on the Rocks, is a light romantic comedy about an unlikely archaeologist wannabe who discovers ancient Maya artifacts and a hunky professional archaeologist in the jungles of Belize. If only love weren't as challenging as digging square holes and side-stepping overgrown spiders! Mary fervently hopes a publisher will bite soon!!
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