<p>Christy Landers Tallamy is a writer, composer and music educator who grew up in rural Georgia and currently resides in Virginia. She has worked as a ghost writer, dabbled in poetry, blogging, the occasional serious essay and has even won a handful of minor awards and accolades for her writing. She believes the world is beautiful even when it is not and that the pen is the mightest sword of them all. Sugar Cane Saint is her debut novel.</p>