Cáit has been writing stories since she could hold a crayon to a wall. Her first novel, Scheresade, (written as Ronit Lèvy and published in 2009 by the Wild Rose Press) started its life on an empty paper grocery bag and knocked around for years, between raising a family and following the wandering life of a grant-funded academic. Along the way, she flipped burgers, worked as a translator, a professional musician, manager of three multi-college distance learning consortia, dean of an extension campus and freelance evaluation consultant. When she’s not writing, she studies languages—Norwegian and Irish Gaelic make numbers eighteen and nineteen—and listens to Mozart and Faroese Metal.