Teresa H. Janssen’s debut historical novel, The Ways of Water (Nov 2023), won the 2024 Southwest Book Award, the National Cowboy Museum's Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel, the Eric Hoffer Award for Historical Fiction, an IPPY Silver, and the Will Rogers Gold Medallion. Her essays and short fiction have been published widely in journals and anthologies, receiving notable mentions in Best American Essays. She lives in Washington state where she is most at home walking its woodlands and beaches. She can be found online at https://www.teresahjanssen.com/.