Paula Treick DeBoard’s novels include the psychological thriller The Drowning Girls (2016) and the novels The Fragile World (2014) and The Mourning Hours (2013). A graduate of the MFA program at the University of Southern Maine, Paula lectures in creative writing at the University of California, Merced. She believes you can tell a lot about a person by their Google search history, and is grateful to her family (husband Will, two small dogs with surprisingly vicious barks, and the world's least patient cat) for supporting her whims.