Ianthe Metze is an Alabama writer with an unfortunate habit of asking perfectly reasonable questions until they become extremely unreasonable stories. She is fascinated by human behavior, forgotten traditions, folklore, and the strange little things people do every day without ever stopping to ask why. Her stories tend to live where humor and grief, absurdity and sincerity, science and folklore, and the ordinary and impossible bump into one another and decide to stay awhile. A lifelong observer of people and collector of details most folks overlook, Ianthe believes some of the best stories begin not with an answer, but with somebody finally asking the question everyone else forgot to ask. Her writing is deeply influenced by the South she knows, including its warmth, contradictions, stubbornness, dark humor, complicated people, and remarkable ability to make something profound sound like an offhand comment over a kitchen table. She lives in Northeast Alabama with her family, where she writes, creates, collects entirely too many questions, and occasionally turns a lifelong habit, strange observation, or particularly persistent dream into a story simply because her brain refuses to leave it alone.