Tamatha Cain is a former musician and bandleader. Awards include: 2024 International Book Award, Short List: 2024 Historical Novel Society First Chapters Competition, 2022 Florida ...view moreTamatha Cain is a former musician and bandleader. Awards include: 2024 International Book Award, Short List: 2024 Historical Novel Society First Chapters Competition, 2022 Florida Book Award, 2020 Royal Palm Literary Award, and Grand Prize in The Experience Poetry Competition. She writes reviews for Southern Literary Review, and is a member of Women's Fiction Writers Association, Women Writing the West, WFWA Historical Fiction Affinity Group, and Historical Novel Society. She is a wife and mother of three and lives in a hundred-year-old bungalow in North Florida, in close proximity to the historic locations found in her novel Song of the Chimney Sweep.view less