Mardi Link is the author of Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass On a Northern Michigan Farm. The memoir of saving her farm and her family post divorce will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in June 2013. She studied agriculture and journalism at Michigan State University and creative writing at Queens University of Charlotte. She has worked as a newspaper reporter, a street tree planter, a seamstress, and a tournament pool player. Her two true crime books about infamous Michigan murders, When Evil Came to Good Hart, and Isadore’s Secret, both spent several weeks on the Heartland Bestseller List and Isadore’s Secret was named a Michigan Notable Book. Mardi is a columnist for the Traverse City Record-Eagle and her essays have been published in Creative Nonfiction, Bellingham Review, Bear River Review, Publishers Weekly, Traverse Magazine, and the Detroit Free Press. She lives in Traverse City, Michigan, on The Big Valley, the small farm featured in her memoir.