A native of Rochester, New York, Elizabeth holds a political science degree from the State of University of New York Empire State College. Her goal as a writer is to introduce the very young to the joys of reading and the world of animals through her stories. Elizabeth and her husband live in Western New York with their four-footed family of rescue cats and dogs; her first picture book, There's a Dog On The Dining Room Table, was inspired by an actual event involving her dog Barney and several of her mischievous cats. Elizabeth is also the proud mother of two grown children and grandmother to