Mary P. Riordan lives in Menomonie, Wisconsin with her husband, Dan. She worked in Student Services at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, administering services to students with disabilities and to the multicultural students, including advising the Black Student Union and the Hmong Stout Student Organization. She was a founding member of the Greenwood Players, a children's theater company, and used her experience to create and tour plays with her students about their experiences to schools in western Wisconsin. Recently she volunteered as a Creative Writing teacher at the Dunn County Jail. ¬ This is her first book.