CAROL DAHLSTROM worked for many years in the Manitoba book-publishing, having started out at Turnstone Press in the late 1970s, just after its inception. She moved on to the University of Manitoba Press and then to Mosaic: A Journal for the International Study of Literature, and has since worked as a free-lance book editor. She spends her time now trying to keep fit, making quilts, and doing her best in summer to keep the weeds in her garden at bay. She lives with her three cats on Willow Island. The Three-Legged Fox: A Willow Island Mystery is her first novel.