Stephanie Peterson was born October 21, 1984 in Willingboro, New Jersey and raised in Cinnaminson and Jackson, New Jersey. She has always been an avid reader and a creative visionary. She is a graduate of Georgian Court University in New Jersey where she received a bachelor's degree in English and currently teaches English at Bishop McDevitt High School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She has currently written over fifty books in her Welcome to Keystone series to which she devotes much of her time. She fondly enjoys spending the remainder of her time with her three cats, Suzy, Jumbo, and Wally.