Susanne Twight-Alexander was born in Healdsburg, California. She and her three brothers grew up in northern California State Parks where their father was a ranger. She lived 25 years in California's Trinity County, where her three children were born, and now lives with her husband in Eugene, Oregon. Though her heart is in the mountains she has come to appreciate the variety of experiences offered by living in a valley where geese fly overhead, frogs serenade from wetland ponds and the rainy weather is brightened by rainbows and spectacular sunsets. She enjoys sharing these experiences with gra...