Tanya Katnic

Tanya Katnic received her Bachelors Degree and teaching credential--both in English--at California State University at Fullerton. She is a certified Master Journalism Educator from the Journalism Education Association.

Long ago, as he was watching her read a romance novel a week, her husband Andrew challenged her to write one herself. She promised herself that she would, once retirement beckoned.

It was a promise that was fulfilled when she took to the computer just days after retiring as a high school English, journalism, and creative writing teacher.

The result is the publication of her first novel, Our Mother Away From Home. The title was born when a rather obnoxious student posed this question: "Aren't you supposed to be our mother away from home?"