MARY L. GROW is a cultural anthropologist and former Fulbright-Hays research scholar. Her ethnographies of performance traditions have been published by Yale University, Smithsonian Institution, and University of Hawai'i Press, among others. An intrepid traveler, she has performed with puppet theater troupes in the United States and Southeast Asia, an experience that informs her novel, NIGHT TRAIN TO ODESSA> She lives in the countryside, north of Santa Fe, with her husband.