ABOUT THE AUTHOR

T.M. Laurenzo was born and raised in the heart of the Midwest. As a lover of books and movies, she was always fascinated by her mother’s stories about growing up in the middle of one brother and five sisters
in small town Iowa, and her life as a young student nurse during the Great Depression. Some of these stories inspired this fictional tale.

The author holds a fine arts degree in graphic design with minors in creative writing, literature and anthropology from Drake University and Adams State College. She still writes short stories and poetry, loves travel and cooking Italian food. Find out more about the author at TMLaurenzo.com or her Italian cooking blog, miacucinaitaliana.com