Born in Iowa and raised on her family’s dairy farm, Carol Bodensteiner graduated from the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University. She built a career in public relations and marketing before turning to creative writing, and she has worked as a freelance writer for the Iowan magazine and the Des Moines Register. Bodensteiner published the memoir Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl in 2008. Go Away Home is her first novel. She currently lives with her husband near Des Moines, Iowa.
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