As a volunteer bird bander for the U.S. Geological Survey, Hannah studies songbird populations. Here she measures the wing of an Ovenbird, a ground nesting warbler in North America that winters in Central America and West Indies.
Photo by Thomas Greg

Hannah Bonsey Suthers started writing while growing up with her two older brothers on their schoolteacher parents´ subsistence farm on Maui, Hawaii. She wrote, illustrated and home produced five children´s books for her three children and six grandchildren. She started the novel while in high school. With a BA in Religion and masters equivalencies in Theology and Biology, she has many journal publications. ´Religion and the Feminine Mystique´, Christian Century, 21 July 1965, is still used in some classes. She was a missionary wife in Michigan and Brazil, then a research and technical staff in biology at Princeton University, New Jersey.