Gin Hammond is an award-winning Harvard University/Moscow Art Theatre grad, as well as an actor, playwright, director, and author. She has performed onstage both nationally and internationally and received grants from Allied Arts, Artist Trust, 4 Culture, the NEA and others. After a decade of interviews with the main character, Gin adapted the story of Returning the Bones into a Gypsy Rose Lee Award and Gregory Award-nominated play, from which the novel is adapted. She also works as a voice teacher, dialect coach, and voice-over artist, and is known for her work in video games such as DotA II, BattleTech, Undead Labs, and is doing motion capture for an upcoming, under-wraps game for Sony/Sucker Punch. Gin is proud co-founder of Meditations for Actors (MFA), a meditation app specifically for actors. She lives with her husband, son, cat, and chickens in Washington State.