About Author Gayle Boss

As I remember it, I wrote my first story in fourth grade, a story about a small rabbit in a big woods. Mrs. Hartnell suggested some things I might do to improve the story, and I burst into tears. Though with long practice I’ve gotten better at receiving critique, I’m still the small creature in a big woods.

Not until I had children did I surrender, as small children do, to an ardent love of our creature-kin. Before and since, I’ve written about many things, often to help pay the bills, but writing about animals and the human-animal bond is the writing that enthralls me. I’ve found it true, what the thirteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart said: “God is equally near in all creatures.”

Many human creatures and two corgis have loved me and encouraged my work. Beyond them, the creatures and landscapes of Michigan’s west coast, often wounded, open to me wonder after wonder.