Betsy Graziani Fasbinder explores the unending complications of people living, working, and loving one another.  As a practicing therapist for more than twenty years, she has been witness to the heartbreak, healing, and heroism of people from all walks of life.  She strives to create stories that bring the emotional truths she’s experienced and observed to the pages in all of her writing. Betsy has been awarded the Floyd Salas Award for Fiction, and has been honored with a Jack London award and two East of Eden awards for both fiction and memoir pieces.  Four of her works have been produced as Readers’ Theater in the historic Nevada Theater in Nevada City, California.  She is the co-producer of The Women’s Writing Salon in Nevada County. Fire & Water is her first novel. Betsy lives nestled in the soft hills of Marin County, California with her husband, one son on the launch pad, and one out on his own in a neighboring town.