Claire Fullerton hails from Memphis, TN. and now lives in Malibu, CA. with her husband and 3 German shepherds. She is the author of Mourning Dove, a five-time book award winner, including the Literary Classics Words on Wings for Book of the Year, and the Ippy Award silver medal in regional fiction. Claire is the author of Dancing to an Irish Reel, a Kindle Book Review and Readers' Favorite book award winner. She is the author of A Portal in Time, set in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and a contributor to the book, A Southern Season with her novella, Through an Autumn Window. Little Tea is Claire's 4th novel. It is the August 2020 selection of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club, a Faulkner Society finalist in the William Wisdom international competition, and on the short list of the Chanticleer Review's Somerset award. She is represented by Julie Gwinn of the Seymour Literary.