Sherry Bronson was born a writer. She wrote poetry at five and began a daily journaling ritual at age seven that continues to this day. Her love of travel, and the mystique of other cultures, took her to Bali, Indonesia, in 2012. She joined a writers' group there and began crafting Nettle Creek. In 2021, after Covid, she moved to Mexico, then back to the family farm near Palisade, Minnesota, where she finished the novel. In this fast-paced mystery romance, Bronson draws on her knowledge of rural life from her own lived experience.