Born on a bitter winter’s night in a rough-hewn log cabin in the northern wilds of Ontario, Canada, Senja Suutari grew up steeped in her Finnish mother’s mysticism and tales of “th...view moreBorn on a bitter winter’s night in a rough-hewn log cabin in the northern wilds of Ontario, Canada, Senja Suutari grew up steeped in her Finnish mother’s mysticism and tales of “the old country.” When a dramatic fire destroyed her childhood home, the family settled in a rough and tumble mining community in Kirkland Lake, where Senja spent her formative years going to classic horror movies, often making her way back in the dark, her footsteps ringing on wooden sidewalks... feeling as if she didn’t walk alone.Her writing blends that Finnish mysticism with a healthy dollop of scary. Her other books are Kissa (The Devil’s Cat) and Beware the Laughing Blackbirds.view less