Sure! I was born in San Francisco and raised in Los Angeles, got my B.S. in Zoology and minor in English at UC Davis and my K-8 teaching certificate from Cal State Northridge. I am a born and bred Californian, but as an adult I have moved quite a bit, living in the Midwest, on the East Coast, Mexico, China, and now New England where I hope to stay. Through it all, I wrote stories, at first just for myself, but then in the early 2000s with the hope of getting published. I joined critique groups, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, took workshops and attended conferences, read many middle grade and young adult novels and craft books, and all the while wrote, revised, submitted, collected rejections, and kept learning and growing.
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