Han­nah Nord­haus is the author of the crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed nation­al best­seller The Bee­keep­er’s Lament, a PEN Cen­ter USA Book Awards final­ist, a Col­orado Book Awards final­ist, and a Nation­al Fed­er­a­tion of Press Women Book Award win­ner. She has writ­ten for the Finan­cial Times, Los Ange­les Times, The Vil­lage Voice, and many oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. She lives with her hus­band and two chil­dren in Boul­der, CO.