BETH FOWLER, author of Could You Love Me Like My Dog?, lives in Austin, Texas, where she writes and illustrates for her own greeting card company, In The Weeds. She donates her professional skills to nonprofits, including the Texas Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse, the Austin Child Guidance Center, Ballet Austin, and the Texas Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Fowler was inspired to write Could You Love Me Like My Cat? by her first kitten, Smoky.