K. E. Blaski writes Young Adult and Middle Grade fiction. Her alter ego is an associate professor at Rock Valley College where she routinely incorporates story telling into her classroom. She is also the Senior Partner at Slug Pie Stories, LLC.Her past lives provide plenty of material, including work as a waitress, radio disk jockey, drug sales rep, backup vocalist in an 80s cover band and entrepreneur. She is a long-time member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. A wanderer at heart, she has lived in nine states and traveled all over the world, currently residing in the Midwest inside an ever-shrinking house with her husband, three kids, two kittens, and a mutt named SIS.