Most of my childhood was spent in Pottstown, PA. My family moved me to Beatrice, NE right before my senior year of high school. What I feared would be a nightmare, turned out to be a welcoming challenge. In 1982, I went to the University of Nebraska for undergraduate studies and then onto Creighton University School of Law. I graduated cum laude and received my JD in 1990 with my 6-week-old son in my arms (No male graduates did that).

I now live in Lincoln, Nebraska with my husband and Australian Shepherd, Riley. When my three children moved onto graduate programs in other cities, my writing career became much more active.