Pushcart Prize nominee Ginger Pinholster-- an avid volunteer with Florida's Volusia Turtle Patrol and the Marine Science Center-- earned her M.F.A. degree from Queens University of Charlotte. Her second novel, Snakes of St. Augustine, was called " relentlessly beautiful and compelling." In 2024, Pinholster received a first-place fiction prize from Prime Number Magazine. City in a Forest, her first novel, won a gold Florida Writers Association award. A science writer for nearly four decades, she is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.