Merrill Wyatt is an author and teacher from Northwest Ohio. She writes funny middle grade mysteries about overly-enthusiastic middle schoolers with a talent for sniffing out trouble. During her childhood, one of her grandmothers lived in an old Victorian home full of creepy dolls, while the other one live in a house overlooking the local graveyard. To Wyatt's everlasting disappointment, she never saw any ghosts in either place. Wyatt lives with her husband, daughter, three cats, and a very surly guinea pig.