Simmons, Mary

Mary teaches high school in Bothell, Washington, where she has lived for twenty years. Born in Oregon, Mary was raised with her two brothers and sister in the Willamette Valley by parents who were teachers. She fell in love with literature while attending Southern Oregon University and pursued her MA at the University of Victoria in Canada.

Mary is blessed with a wonderful family and a circle of friends and colleagues. She is the mother of one son of whom she is inordinately proud. Her father, Bert Simmons, with whom she wrote this book, went on to be a high school principal after teaching....