D. J. Brandon grew up in a small town in rural New York, and has lived in four states, from the east coast to the Midwest. With a bachelor’s degree from Wright State University in Ohio, she devoted most of her life to working in child and family health care while raising two children of her own. With her children grown, D. J. and her husband returned to small-town life in their home state in 2002. She credits her five grandchildren with keeping her young at heart as she nurtures a lifelong dream of writing books for kids.
