Toni Tarango

About the Author

Toni was born in San Antonio, Texas on April 20th while her father was stationed at Lackland Air Force Base. Raised as a Roman Catholic, she was the firstborn of eight children, seven girls and a boy. Her bicultural background references her Mexican American father and her mother of European descent. Most of her immediate family lives in Arizona.

She graduated from the undergraduate School of Social Work at Arizona State University and then from the Graduate School of Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University in Northern California. She spent her career in the nonprofit Health and Human Services arena working with multiple underserved populations.

Toni is a twice-published poet and As the Twig is Bent-Between Two Worlds is her first published work of fiction. As the Eagle Soars: At Birth and Beyond is the prequel and it's now available. She is recently retired and lives in Oakland, California with her long-term softball playing partner, Rick and their cat, Coco. #CatTownRocks