Jeanette Baker

Jeanette Baker is the award-winning author of twenty novels, most of them set in the lush countryside of historical and contemporary Ireland where she lives and writes during the 'season of silence,' the autumn and winter months. Her ancestors, the O'Flahertys, hail from the counties of Kerry and Galway. She takes great pride in the prayer posted by the English over the ancient city gates, 'From the wrath of the O'Flahertys, may the good Lord deliver us.'

Jeanette graduated from the University of California at Irvine and holds a Masters Degree in Education. For the remainder of the year, she teaches in Southern California and enjoys the company of her grown children and, recently, four new additions to the family, her precious grandchildren. She is the Rita award-winning author of NELL.