Raised in Chicago, Gail Galotta also spent childhood vacations in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. From riding her bicycle to the city's beaches to swimming at her grandparents' cottage, the Pisces-born writer has always been drawn to the mystical qualities of water and often features lakes in the settings of her stories.

Galotta became a high school English teacher and pursued her love of theater by directing both school and community productions. She has also written a number of plays, including a dramatic reading of The Trouble in Thor by famed mystery writer, Charlotte Armstrong. Galotta's fiction has earned awards in several writing contests, including one sponsored by the State of Michigan's General Federation of Women's Clubs. Several of her stories and poetry have also won writing contests held by the Upper Peninsula Writers Association, who named her "Emerging New Writer of the Year" in 2008. Galotta wrote a weekly column for the Iron Mountain Daily News for nine years and published a book of personal essays entitled Views from my Boathouse: Musings of a City-Raised, Small Town Journalist.

Galotta lives in Vulcan, Michigan, with her husband, Richard, and their dog, Daisy Mae. She looks out at the same lake that inspired her earliest writing at her grandparents' cottage. When asked what mystical qualities inspired her latest collection of stories, she will only offer a cryptic smile.