Christine Mehring grew up in a house full of books. As a child she was often in trouble for hiding out -- in the school library. She wanted to be an astronaut, an archeologist, a starving artist in Paris (so romantic!), a gypsy traveling the world with a backpack, a teacher, a farmer, an international spy; the world was so huge and full of possibilities that is was impossible to choose just one. Then, one day, she realized that what she really wanted most of all, and what she was looking for in everything else, was stories. Now she makes stories, so some days she's an astronaut, some days she's a gypsy, and when she's not writing she really does farm a small market garden with her husband, the beekeeper, and an assortment of kids and animals in an area of Nevada that might generously be called "the boonies".

Christine Mehring