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I love kids. I love books. And I love writing books for kids who want to be everyday heroes. Lots of my ideas come from the students I taught in East Aurora. In fact, my first book, Canned, and Crushed, was for my students, who promised they’d read a book if I wrote one. Since then, I’ve written—The Gift (2016 e-book), Crossing the Line (2017-Christopher Award Winner), and Another D for DeeDee (2018-Starred Kirkus review). I’m currently doing the last edits on three more middle-grade novels: a historical fiction book set in 1963, a speculative fiction book with time travel, and a sequel to Canned and Crushed. I live in Chicago and spend my days writing, quilting, volunteering for CPS, substituting at Bennett Day School, traveling, and visiting my grandkids in California and Michigan. I have a B.A. in English, an M.A. in Bilingual Literacy, an ESL Endorsement, and a Reading Endorsement, but my unofficial credentials are babysitting for members of the Grateful Dead, having my jump rope thrown in a tree by Jim Belushi, and hoodwinking hundreds of first graders into believing plastic dinosaurs could come alive to teach them facts. Latest BooksCrossing the Line (Sky Pony Press, 2020) Another D for DeeDee (Sky Pony Press, 2018) Canned and Crushed (Sky Pony Press, 2017) The Gift (Sky Pony Press, 2016)
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