Emily Raabe lives in San Francisco in an old box factory. She is a lecturer in creative writing at the California College of the Arts, and holds an MFA in Poetry from the California College of Arts and Crafts, an MA in European Literature from the University of Sussex, and a BA in English Literature from Middlebury College. She has written more than 25 non-fiction books for kids on topics ranging from Ethan Allen to bats to photosynthesis, and her poems have most recently appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, Crab Orchard Review, Antioch Review, and AGNI Online.