Author Biography

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let me tell you a little about myself. I am a full time teacher in northern Colorado. My job title is Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Teacher. That means that I have the privilege of helping children who have just arrived in the country learn English. I get asked all the time if that means I speak all these languages. No, sadly, I don't. Instead, I have ways of communicating with pictures and gestures as I teach the students to speak English. My students are the ones who inspired my Traveling Trunk series of books. I wanted to showcase their cultures in a positive way and teach others about the fascinating places our students come from. When I'm not at school, I love hiking in the Rocky Mountains and racing on autocross tracks with my husband. He makes our racecars from scratch.