Carolan Ivey is a North Carolina native living in northwest Ohio with her husband, two children, and two highly opinionated dachshunds. When she’s not writing, reading, adding to her ever-burgeoning collection of Celtic music, tending her herb garden and tending her family, she is a technical writer. "I am a writer today because of Marguerite Henry, my favorite childhood author, and because of two influential high school English teachers who not only encouraged creativity, but taught me how to write a coherent paragraph."