Carolyn Thériault is a writer and photographer with no fixed address and an equally unfixed lifestyle. Originally from Montréal, Canada,  she has – camera and notebook  in hand – flitted about the world in a most irresponsible manner. Plagued by a series of 7-year itches (which included stints as an envelope opener, a peddler of fine china, a pet-sitter and an archaeologist), she has lived a somewhat vagabond’s life in this otherwise 40-hour work-week world.

In a world where ants are king, she is a grasshopper.

To the surprise of her friends and family, she has been published in an awfully impressive list of tomes. She is also the co-founder of and a regular contributor to Urban Caravan Photography, a website which showcases her breathtakingly beautiful travel photograph, but does little to augment her income.

As a self-proclaimed addict of literary travel, Carolyn once swore that if she came upon another author who just happened upon a tumbledown farm in the French Pyrenees or a writer who felt compelled to agonize in print over the plastering of the frescoes in her restored Tuscan villa she would implode. Instead, she turned to Stealing Fatima's Hand which proved to be far more therapeutic and less dangerous to her health. When she isn’t criticizing the works of ridiculously successful authors, she grudgingly teaches English to pay the bills but is quick to hop on a plane, bus or ferry at a moment’s notice for fields green and not so green.

Stealing Fatima's Hand is Carolyn’s first book and she looks forward to selling the movie rights to the Coen Brothers and becoming obscenely wealthy. She currently resides in Iraq with the man who has yet to say ‘no’ to her, her husband Chris and Celeste the Wonder Dog - probably the only Border Collie who failed bomb-sniffing school.