When I was a kid, I want­ed to be a lot of things when I grew up, but it nev­er occurred to me to be an author. At some point in time, I was going to be a teacher, a judge, a stunt woman, a mom with twelve kids who lived on a farm in the city, or a busi­ness woman who wore suits and worked in a glass-win­dowed high-rise. My ulti­mate dream was for a job that didn’t exist: an all-pur­pose idea-thinker-upper. (My dream was very spe­cif­ic: cool office with toys and gad­gets, a chair that swiveled, and clients who paid me to solve their myr­i­ad prob­lems with incred­i­bly cre­ative solutions.)

I’ve lived my whole life in, or around, Min­neapo­lis, Min­neso­ta. I cur­rent­ly live in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

Writ­ing is my full-time job and I love that I actu­al­ly did end up being a pro­fes­sion­al idea-thinker-upper—though just not as I had orig­i­nal­ly imagined.

In my spare time, I like to read, play on the fly­ing trapeze, trav­el to warm des­ti­na­tions, watch movies, work-out, and do yoga. I also spend an inor­di­nate amount of time star­ing out the window.