Phyllis Anne Duncan is a retired bureaucrat but one with an overactive imagination-at least that's what she's been told since she first started making up stories in elementary school prompted by her weekly list of spelling words. A commercial pilot and former FAA safety official, she lives and writes in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. A graduate of Madison College (now James Madison University), she has degrees in history and political science. Her love of politics continues to this day. She is the First Vice President of the Virginia Writers Club, one of the oldest writer organizations in the country. Her fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. When not writing, reading, reviewing books, singing in a UU choir, watching the New York Yankees, or cheering on Dale Earnhardt, Jr., she delights in spoiling her grandchildren.