Ali­son Gold­berg is a writer based in Cam­bridge, Mass­a­chu­setts, and the author of I Love You for Miles and Miles. She also wrote the award-win­ning non­fic­tion pic­ture book Bot­tle Tops, a biog­ra­phy of the Ghana­ian artist El Anat­sui. Eigh­teen Flow­ers for Grand­ma was inspired by her own grand­moth­er, who grad­u­at­ed from col­lege at the age of sev­en­ty-eight. You can vis­it Ali­son online at alisongold​berg​.com.