The bestselling author of Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, Sara Donati also writes as Rosina Lippi.  Under that name her novel Homestead won the Pen/Hemingway Award in 1998 and was shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize.  Her latest Fire Along the Sky was published by Transworld Australia in 2004. She lives in the Pacific Northwest of the USA.  Tied To The Tracks was published in B-Format in 2008. The next title in the Wilderness Series, The Endless Forrest, was published in 2010.