Terrie Petree & Hollands is a writer from Hays, Kansas. She has published essays and short fiction in various publications throughout the nation, in which she explores the intricacy, beauty, and absurdity of modern religious life. She attended Brigham Young University and served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Bilbao, Spain. She returned to BYU to complete a bachelor's degree in English before earning a master's degree in American Literature from San Diego State University. While at SDSU, Petree befriended National Book Award-winner William T. Vollmann and put her missionary Spanish to use as Vollmann's translator and driver in the brothels and ranchlands of Mexico's border cities?the origin of a lifelong friendship. In 2009, she married microbiologist Dr. Andrew Hollands. Together they live in Pacific Beach, California, with their three children. After the Wolf is her first novel.