Pamela Davies researched rural Northern Florida locales in an old RV with a completed draft of Snowball Trees and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. A Minnesotan born and bred, she had never been to the south, let alone the Florida Big Bend region. Scouring the counties between Tallahassee and I-75 from Perry to the Georgia border she finally found the county and towns she was looking for and the richness of place she needed to fill out the story. Now a resident of rural NW Wisconsin, she lives with writer Charles Locks and feline friend Kitty Carlyle and is a member of the local book club and garden club. Ms Davies is also a recipient of a Loft-McKnight Award in Fiction.