Marjorie Tapley-Olson has taught art and special education, spending summers traveling the back roads and byways of all 50 states. Her first publications were educational books and stories, some of which now sell as collectors items! Kindred Journeys is her first adult novel, with many of the settings bases on her travels. She and her husband reside partly in Arlington, Virginia, where her current project is visiting the other 34 Arlingtons in the U.S and blogging about them. They spend the rest of the year in a 217 year old, historic farm house on the coast of Maine, where she is currently at work on a middle grade science fiction novel and a younger reader series.