About the Author

Linda Ulleseit, a founding member of Paper Lantern Writers, is a California native who earned her MFA from Lindenwood University. She is a retired elementary school teacher who believes in the unspoken power of women living ordinary lives. UNDER THE ALMOND TREES, a historical novel set in pioneer California, came out in 2014. It was a finalist in the 2013 Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Contest. THE ALOHA SPIRIT, set in territorial Hawaii, came out in August of 2020 from She Writes Press. It was a bronze medal winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards, and a Grand Prize winner at the 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards. THE RIVER REMEMBERS coming 2023 from She Writes Press, follows a white settler, a Dakota chief’s daughter, and a Black slave, all real people, who lived at or near Fort Snelling in 1835.