Mary Birk lives in Colorado with her husband. Before embarking on writing fiction, she practiced law and authored the Colorado Pretrial Handbook, published in 2008, and reissued in 2011 by Bradford Publishing Company. She has been named a Library Journal SELF-E Select author. Mermaids of Bodega Bay is the first book in the Terrence Reid/Anne Michaels series. It was named a SELF-e Top Book of the Year for 2016 by Library Journal, and was a finalist for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold award in 2013.