Author: Rebecca E. S. Cleland

Becky Cleland holds a Master of Library Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and has served as a librarian for more than twenty-two years at Isothermal Community College in Spindale, North Carolina. In addition, she performs Appalachian and Celtic folk music with Ben Seymour, her luthier husband of thirty-three years in the duo known as Gingerthistle, and makes pottery under the label Greenthorn Pottery, as well as creating jewelry for herself and friends. Becky and Ben share a home in Tryon, North Carolina, with two cats and lots of nature.