Sally Ann Sims

Sally Ann Sims is a writer, artist, and scientist with an MS in Conservation Biology. Her essays--on bluebird nest monitoring, learning to play the saxophone, and making sense of a mismatched creche--have been published in the Christian Science Monitor. Sally worked as a technical editor and philanthropic fundraiser before earning her MS.

Sally was born in Concord, MA, and spent a great deal of time as a teenager riding around Walden Pond on her Morgan gelding. She also hiked, canoed, and skied in the New England, Montana, and Alaska. During her stint in the Student Conservation Association at Glacier National Park, she was chased off-trail by a mother mountain goat protecting her kid on Gunsight Pass and managed to relocate the trail home without spraining her ankle.

Sally's fiction combines literary, contemporary, suspense, thriller, and romance elements. Halt at X is her first novel, set in the fictional town of Plumcliff on the North Shore of Massachusetts. Sally's second novel, Yellow Sky, Emerald Sea, is set on Rhode Island's Weekapaug Coast on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Hurricane of 1938.