Cheryl Fusco Johnson is a writer and editor who teaches at the University of Iowa's Summer Writing Festival and the Institute of Children's Literature in Redding, Connecticut. She hosts the radio show Writers' Voices at KRUU in Fairfield, Iowa.
Beth Howard spent decades scuba diving with sharks and baking pies for movie stars before she fell in love with a historic Iowa farmhouse. For $250 a month, she now calls it home.