Patricia Harrington has worked with the Cambodian refugee community in the Puget Sound region for 11 years. She was the director of the first Cambodian Episcopal Church in the country. The author is a professional grant writer and has written grant programs helping diverse communities and people. Her most recent grant project was awarded a $35 million HUD HOPE VI grant to revitalize the Salishan Public Housing Development in Tacoma, WA. Harrington's mystery fiction, mystery-related articles and clerihew poetry have appeared in Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, Over My Dead Body, Mystery Time Anthology, Mystery Readers Journal, Crimsestalker Casebook, and FUTURES for writers with fire to fly. Online her work has appeared or is upcoming in Mysterybooks.About.com, Handheld Crime, MysteryNet and NEFARIOUS, Tales of Mystery.