Robin Heald lives in Ash­land, Ore­gon. Before her thir­ty-year career as a dra­ma teacher and preschool direc­tor, Robin was a stage man­ag­er in region­al the­aters, and on and off Broad­way. Her pre­vi­ous works include Pat, Roll, Pull and Lib­er­ty Saves the Day, and her arti­cles have appeared in Excep­tion­al Par­ent­ing Mag­a­zine and Children’s Lit­er­a­ture in Edu­ca­tion. Robin’s pic­ture book Isadora’s Sandálias won the Kather­ine Pater­son Prize for unpub­lished children’s lit­er­a­ture at Hunger Moun­tain in 2015. Her most recent pic­ture book, Whistling for Angela, was inspired by her first­hand expe­ri­ences with adop­tion. Robin holds a Master’s of Fine Arts in Writ­ing for Chil­dren from Spald­ing Uni­ver­si­ty.