Ferris Robinson lives in a beautiful part of East Tennessee (very similar to Barrington in Making Arrangements) with her husband and two dogs. The mother of three grown sons, she delights in the fact that her dogs obey her – more or less.

A former columnist and feature writer for the Chattanooga News Free Press, she is now the editor of the Lookout Mountain Mirror and the Signal Mountain Mirror. Her work has been published numerous times in the Christian Science Monitor and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. She is a columnist at chattanoogan.com.

The author of several cookbooks, including Never Trust a Hungry cook, which she wrote in college, Simplify Supper and the Gorgeless Gourmet’s Cookbook,  Ferris and her husband were featured on the cover of Woman’s World magazine 20 years ago.  Promoting her easy but healthy recipes in the Gorgeless Gourment’s Cookbook, she made numerous television appearances and sold 10,000 copies of th book, pre-Internet.

Her other books include Dogs and Love – Sixteen Stories of Fidelity and Authentic Log Homes, featuring hand-hewn log  homes. Making Arrangements is her first novel.