CASEY SCIESZKA is the author of The Fountain: A Novel (Harper Perennial). She is a born-and-raised Brooklynite who has lived in Beijing; San Francisco; Fez, Morocco; and Timbuktu, Mali, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. In 2013, she and her husband, artist Steven Weinberg, moved to the Catskill Mountains and opened the Spruceton Inn: A Catskills Bed & Bar, which runs an annual artist residency hosting world-renowned painters, bestselling authors, and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists.