Fran Wood and her husband, Jim, live in Ellenton, Florida along with their beloved dog, Bandit—the subject of this book. Fran and Jim have three grown sons. The eldest, Carl Harbuck, is a world-record-holding blimp pilot. Alan Harbuck, in the middle, is a yacht trader and writer. Jeff Wood, the youngest, is a lawyer and an officer in the National Guard, currently serving in Iraq.

Fran’s life was forever shaped by her birth to Christian parents who taught her about the Gospel and by her childhood in Fitzgerald, Georgia, a unique town settled in unity by Northern and Southern soldiers shortly after the Civil War. She also attributes part of her life perspective to her Native American heritage — her great-great grandmother was a Cherokee.

What My Dog Taught Me About God is Fran’s debut book. Her next two books are already in the works. One is a Southern foods cookbook tentatively titled My Mama’s Recipes and the other is an autobiographical novel tentatively titled, Growing Up Poor In the Deep South.