Dagny Sprague spent her earliest years in the Republic of Panama, where she learned a love of art and nature from her artist father and her love of books and reading from her teacher mother. She spent her school years in Florida and Virginia, attending Old Dominion University and earning a bachelor's degree cum laude in English. She then went on to teach in Ohio for a year before moving to New Orleans to work as a waitress and bartender and pursue her interest in writing.
