Sharon Locy was born and raised in southwestern Minnesota. She received a B.A. in English at the College of St. Teresa, Winona, MN, and a Ph.D. in English (19th-Century British Literature) at the University of California, Davis. She taught literature and writing at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, for thirty-five years. She has published articles on Flannery O’Connor, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Sandra Cisneros, among others. Ice Harvest is her first novel. She lives in Santa Monica, CA.