When I’m not writing children’s books, I’m working as a technical writer. Writing nonfiction for kids is a lot like technical writing. For both, you have to take complicated topics and make them easy to understand. Writing for kids is actually harder; in addition to making complex topics easy to understand, you have to make them interesting.
I have a master’s in scientific and technical communication. The focus of my master’s was on health and medical writing, with a special emphasis on medical writing for kids. In addition to medical writing, other favorite topics for me to write about include exploration and nature.
I am also a Minnesota Master Naturalist. I live and write in Minneapolis, Minnesota.