Linda S. Godfrey worked as a newspaper reporter and columnist for The Week, a county newspaper published in Delavan, Wisconsin, for 10 years. A winner of several National Newspaper Association first-place awards for feature stories, she is the author of The Beast of Bray Road and Hunting the American Werewolf, as well as two volumes in the Bames & Noble "Weird" series: Weird Wisconsin and Weird Michigan. Godfrey has appeared on many national television and radio programs as an expert on anomalous creatures. She is also an illustrator and artist, and lives in rural southeastern Wisconsin.