About Mari M. Bianco

Growing up reading-obsessed, Mari escaped into books to manage reality, keep her impulsive tendencies in check, and annoy her little sister who found pleasure in hurling Mari’s paperbacks into the closest body of water. This heinous and cruel form of attention-seeking caused Mari many hours of hair-drying wet pages as she vowed to enact revenge by reading even more! Much to her sister's disappointment, Mari has remained a voracious bibliophile. She even graduated from Boston College with a B.A. in English and Simmons University with an M.A. in Teaching and an M.A. in Children’s Literature. She taught middle school English for twenty years before following her dream to become a writer. (It took her that long to muster the guts to put her words out in the world.) She coaches high school girls' varsity field hockey and lacrosse in Providence, RI where she lives with three teenagers (a.k.a., her little shiitake mushrooms), a New York Times crossword puzzle-obsessed husband, and a canine diva who recently decided that pooping in the basement is way more convenient than waiting for a human to take her outside.