Clara Castelar grew up in Brazil. She has worked as a reporter and columnist.More recently, she has written novels and children's stories. Her Mayapple Woods is a sheltering place where acceptance is stronger than fear of the Other. In this new story, Dr. Or Pimento, a wounded owl, joins the local population after he literally falls into the healing embrace of a new friend, klezmer-singing mouse Cuthbert Thistleseed.