A New Englander transplanted around the world, Holly Hodder Eger has written travel articles and personal commentaries that have appeared in national and local publications. She began Split Rock as a short story when her youngest child was in nursery school, put it aside while raising her family and moving them internationally several times, and finished it just before her oldest was married. Holly and her husband now live on Martha’s Vineyard and in Northern California, where she teaches writing. Split Rock is her first novel.