Merrill Wyatt is the author of Tangled Up in Luck and Ernestine, Catastrophe Queen. She lives in Toledo, Ohio, with her husband, daughter, three cats, and a slightly surly guinea pig. Merrill spent far too much of her childhood wandering around cemeteries and old Victorian homes. A middle school technology teacher, she is doll-phobic, donut obsessed, and owns too many pairs of shoes..