Before she was a bestselling author, Jo Maeder was a popular radio DJ and voice artist in South Florida and New York City. She loves sumo, spying on nature with her trail camera, rowing on her ERG, and traveling. After losing an eye to ocular melanoma, she is an advocate of dilation and retinal imaging at annual eye exams. She lives in North Carolina with her mathematician husband and can't play Sudoku to save her life.