“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.” ― Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

I grew up in Wisconsin, the oldest of four. As a kid, my dad always teased me that I would be a librarian someday. That’s because I read all the time—walking home from school, while brushing my teeth, under the table at dinnertime, and under the covers at night. And, sure enough, after earning an elementary teaching degree from the University of Wisconsin (go Badgers!), I went on to get a master’s degree in information studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Yes, that’d be library school.

I still live and read in Wisconsin, but now I share my home and books with a husband, two sons, and a big black dog.

And Some Other Stuff

• Despite being a librarian, I am secretly a disorganized person.
• I like to draw.
• I also write books under the name Rebecca Hogue Wojahn. Guess which one is a pen name?
• I am convinced that I am a supertaster. (However, my mom called it being a picky eater when I was growing up.)
• I use too many parentheses, ellipses, and em dashes in my writing.
• Even though my dad was an eye doctor, I flunked my fourth grade vision screening. Like, really flunked it. I couldn’t see the biggest “E.”
• I am a fan of caramel apples, sunflowers, fresh pineapple, smart wool socks, and dusk. But who isn’t?
• I am left-handed. Furthermore, I once worked in a library where five of the seven librarians were left-handed. Seven out of seven of us found this wildly interesting.
• I am always running late. See #1 on this list.
• I’ve never owned anything pink on purpose.
• I love lists.