Claudette E. Sut­ton lives with her hus­band and son in San­ta Fe, NM, where she edits and pub­lish­es Tum­ble­weeds, a quar­ter­ly par­ent­ing news­pa­per that she cre­at­ed 20 years ago when her son was 6. Her arti­cles have appeared in numer­ous pub­li­ca­tions and won state and nation­al awards. Farewell, Alep­po is her first book.