Cyn­thia Ehrenkrantz’s first sto­ry, writ­ten when she was eight, was about The Pin Fam­i­ly who lived under the floor­boards of a dress­mak­er’s shop. She began pub­lish­ing after rais­ing three chil­dren and retir­ing from a career in the spe­cial­ty food indus­try. She lives in White Plains, New York, and per­forms at region­al sto­ry­telling events. Seek­ing Shel­ter, her first pub­lished book, is a final­ist in The Wish­ing Shelf book con­test in the U.K.