Writer/filmmaker Denise Ohio has made feature films such as Verona: The Story of the Everett Massacre (Virgil Entertainment) and Amazing World (Northern Arts/Naiad), as well as shorts, worked as a consulting producer and teacher, and had articles, essays, and criticism published on filmmaking, beekeeping, and literature. She’s had one nonfiction book, Five Essential Steps in Digital Video: A DV Moviemaker’s Tricks of the Trade (Que) and three novels, Blue (McPherson & Company), End of the Empire (St. Martin’s Press), and The Finer Grain (Naiad Press) published. She has just published “The Curious Case of the City of Everett” and is working on a multipart, combined nonfiction/fiction project, A Thousand Faces. She’s not on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook because life is too short for that crap. She is a fan of the serial comma. Ohio lives with her spouse outside Monroe, Washington, where they raise honeybees and lavender. You can find out more about her work by visiting www.holytoledo.com.