Jeannine Garsee

Jeannine Garsee grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, which also happens to be the setting for her YA novel. She began telling stories on paper as soon as she learned to draw; then, when she grew older, she'd add captions to the pictures, till the captions grew longer and longer, knocking the pictures right off the page. As the author of three "practice" novels before she was out of high school, she never wanted to be anything BUT a writer--but fell under a strange, insidious spell, and found herself in the nursing profession instead. Although she still works full-time as an RN in an inner city hospital, she now devotes every "free" moment to creating new worlds for new characters.

Jeannine lives in Strongsville, Ohio with her husband, two children, a cockatiel, and an ancient, utterly psychotic cat named Max.