Susan Stinson is the author of three novels and a collection of poetry and lyric essays. In 2011, she was awarded the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation. Her work has appeared in anthologies from Ballantine Books, NYU Press and Scholastic Books, and in many periodicals, including The Common, Early American Studies and Kenyon Review. Currently Writer in Residence at Forbes Library in Northampton, she can be found online at http://susanstinson.net/. SPIDER IN A TREE, a novel based on Northampton in the time of Jonathan Edwards, will be published by Small Beer Press in 2013. An excerpt from this work can be found here: http://necessaryfiction.com/writerinres/BundlingbySusanStinson.