At five, her picture was featured in the local paper as a “super reader”. That same year, she wrote her first children’s book and at age six, her first series. As a grown up, she taught creative writing to kiddos in Oregon and California where she hopes to have inspired future writers and imaginers. When she’s not creating adventures with words, she enjoys looking for mermaids at the beach and fairies in the forest. She lives in San Diego, California with an ark’s worth of expressive animals, her novelist daughter, and an enterprising husband.