Hannah Roberts McKinnon grew up in Fairfield County, Connecticut, writing about and drawing animals. The daughter of an English teacher, she spent her early childhood nights falling asleep to the click-clack of her father s typewriter and adopted his love of words and literature. She attended her first young author s conference in Mrs. Myers third-grade class with her debut story Rodents on the Range, a hamster Western, and has not been the same since.
Hannah attended Connecticut College, graduating with a B.A. in English and elementary education. She later traveled to Australia, an...