Writing Bio: Stephanie Feldstein has a B.A. in Creative

Writing from the University of Michigan. She graduated from

the program with honors, also earning the Hopwood Award

for Poetry and the Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Award for

Poetry while at the university. She has participated in poetry

readings throughout southeast Michigan, including A Night

Out in Ann Arbor with Garrison Keillor and the United

Nations’ Dialogue Among Civilizations project. She was a

runner-up in the Allen Ginsberg Memorial Poetry Contest and

was awarded the bronze medal for Modern Poetry in Logic

Alley’s Poetry Olympics. Living with the Bull is her first novel.

Animal Bio:  Stephanie Feldstein has been involved with

animal rescue since 1998 when she began working at the

Humane Society of Huron Valley. After she left the Humane

Society, she continued to be deeply involved with local

rescue groups and became a volunteer at the Michigan

Humane Society. Over the years, she has been a volunteer

foster home, assistant dog trainer, and leader of a team of

volunteers getting adoptable animals on petfinder.com. She

continues to answer behavior helpline calls for the Michigan

Humane Society in addition to helping local rescue groups.

Stephanie sits on the Board of Directors of Pit Bull Rescue

Central, an online resource dedicated to helping pit bull dogs

find loving, responsible homes and to restoring the positive

image and honor of these dogs. She lives with two pit bulls of

her own, in addition to two shepherd mixes, four cats, and

the occasional foster dog that needs help finding a home.