The mysterious door in your basement is a portal to any time and place. What do you find when you walk through it? The Basement Door answers this question with a cornucopia of tales, spanning a wide range of styles from middle-grade fiction to high fantasy, from memoir and poetry to science fiction and romance. There's something for every reader, if you are brave enough to open the basement door!

Susan Dean grew up in the southern United States and moved to Minnesota to attend college. Like Abby MacMillan, she loved the state and its people so much she made it her home, eventually marrying her own Minnesota-born man.