I was born and raised in Queens, New York with one older brother and loving parents. When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote a chapter of a class novel for English. In 2003, for one of my English college classes in college, I had to write a children's book with illustrations. I searched through coloring books for my illustrations when I found the animals of Noah's Ark. I told the story of the animals' journey to the ark and the 40 days of rain. My professor thought very highly of the book and asked if I had simply cut out a children's book and pasted it to my large art book, but I didn't th more...
