Mardi Jo Link is the award-winning author of two memoirs and three true crime books including Bootstrapper, a memoir of single-motherhood, rural life, and badassery published by Knopf. It was named a Michigan Notable Book, won the Housatonic Book Award for non-fiction, and the Great Lakes Independent Bookseller’s Association’s Bookseller’s Choice Award. Academy-Award winning actress Rachel Weisz has optioned the book for film. Mardi has also written three true crime books about unsolved murders. Her second memoir, The Drummond Girls, is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing. She lives in Traverse City, Michigan and writes a monthly column for her local newspaper, the Traverse City Record-Eagle. She studied journalism at Michigan State University and has her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte.