Words make Genia happy. She has a degree in journalism from Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo and writes from home. She lives in Southern California with her family of two teens, her kindhearted husband who directs for television, and her two dogs, which keep her company while she writes. When she isn't writing, she is reading, hiking, being entertained by the kids, cooking, or enjoying a family day at the beach.
<p class="biography" <b Stephen Smith</b 's stories about five dollar bills and boy travel writers have appeared in Geist and McSweeney's. He has also written for the <i Globe and Mail</i , <i Canadian Geographic</i , <i Outside</i , and the <i New York Times Magazine</i . He lives in Toronto, where he tends a blog, puckstruck.com, that keeps an eye on hockey culture. <i Puckstruck</i is his first book. </p