A
native New Yorker, Carol Ann Sima wrote the entirety
of The Mermaid That Came Between Them longhand at coffee
shops throughout New York City, the names of which she
has vowed never to disclose, lest she betray her and
her writer friends favorite creative haunts. Sima works
as a grade school language arts teacher for the New
York School system. Her first novel, Jane's Bad Hare
Day, was published by Dalkey Archive.