Bar­bara Stark-Nemon learned the mag­ic of lan­guage from her sto­ry­telling grand­fa­ther. She stud­ied Eng­lish, Art His­to­ry, and Speech-lan­guage ther­a­py at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan, lead­ing to a career work­ing with chil­dren. Bar­bara writes, gar­dens, swims, and cycles with her fam­i­ly in Ann Arbor and North­port, MI.