Elizabeth Osta is a recipient of Florida's Amelia Island Literary Award for Non-Fiction and Rochester, New York's "Writers & Book" Big Pencil Award. Her historial covel, "Jeremiah's Hunger" and her memoir, "Saving Faith, a Memoir of Courage, Conviction and a Calling", which was nominated for the Best of Rochester Award, have been accompanied by critical acclaim. "Maggie's Brood" is her fourth publication. She currently lives near Lima, New York in Fairport on the Erie Canal with her husband Dave Van Arsdale and is enchanted by twin grandsons.