Donald Otis Crane is a writer, screenwriter, filmmaker, and historian. His works include "Tales of the New English," "Sincere Sinner," "Off Season," "Last Yankees," "Wicked Sisters," "Leni/Marlene," "Nightfolk" (with Holly Saknusseneouw) and the upcoming novel, "Dreaming of Freydis."
Mr. Crane has also redesigned Soviet-era movie cameras for college film programs, provided essays for the Akureyri Museum of Art in Iceland, and submitted peace proposals to the Mitchell Commission for Northern Ireland that were fortunately never acted upon.

Mr. Crane lives in Framingham, Massachusetts with a cat and an unknown number of flying squirrels.

Born Helle Saknusseneouw in Copenhagen of mixed Polish and Flemish ancestry, Holly moved to Boston at age nineteen to attend art school. She has lived off and on in Massachusetts ever since, working as a translator, designer, historian, and folklorist--an experience that allowed her to simultaneously immerse herself in American culture and be "a Dane of her own making."

Her novel Nightfolk grew out of three experiences: an extended stay at an Adirondack Hotel during the Summer of 1993, a glimpse of what may have been Orson Welles' notebook for a film adaption of "Carmilla", and her own family's wanderings across Europe.

Ms. Saknusseneouw currently resides in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, where she hibernates for the winter.