Jonis Agee is an award-winning author whose works include Sweet Eyes and Odd Angels, both of which were named New York Times Notable Books. Agee grew up in Nebraska but spent her summers in Missouri on the Lake of the Ozarks. She was a long-time professor at the College of St. Catherine. In St. Catherine's, Paul, Minnesota, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, are both home to the University of Michigan. She returned to Nebraska after a long absence, where she now lives on an acreage along the Missouri River north of Omaha and teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.