Shannon Page was born on Halloween night and spent her formative years on a commune in northern California’s backwoods. A childhood without television gave her a great love of books and the worlds she found in them. She wrote her first book, an adventure story starring her cat, at the age of seven. Sadly, that work is currently out of print. She is a longtime practitioner of Ashtanga yoga, has no tattoos, and lives on Orcas Island, upper Washington state, with her husband, author and illustrator Mark Ferrari.