Hailey Lind is the pseudonym for two sisters, one an artist and the other a historian.

Julie Goodson-Lawes is a self-taught muralist and portrait painter who has run her own faux finishing and design business in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than a decade. Before pursuing art full-time Julie worked as a waitress, an ethnographer, and a family therapist. A California native, she received a Master’s Degree in Anthropology and an MSW in Social Welfare from the University at Albany, NY, and has published several non-fiction articles on immigration as well as one book-length translation, Endangered Cultures (SMU Press, 1988). She speaks Spanish fluently, French adequately, and enough Vietnamese to get herself into trouble.

Carolyn J. Lawes received a BA in History from the University of Santa Clara, and, after a brief and remarkably unhappy sojourn as a Personnel Assistant in the Silicon Valley, earned an MA and a PhD in History from UC Davis. She is Associate Professor of History at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she specializes in American women’s history. She has published numerous academic articles and reviews and one major book, Women and Reform in a New England Community, 1815-1860. She has won both college and university teaching awards, and was voted “Favorite Professor” in 1996. She speaks French with a distinct American accent.

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