I was adopted at the age of 8 months by an American/Canadian family and grew up in the Southern part of the US. From a young age, I wanted to be a writer and majored in English Creative Writing with a minor in Fine Art. I spent part of my junior year abroad in Cortona, Italy, which was the turning point in my life. After graduation, I got a job as an English teacher at the University of Prague. I spent two years living and teaching in Prague and a further and a half years living and teaching English in Tokyo, Japan. I moved to England to marry my British boyfriend (who I had met in Pr more...