Colleen Clancy Hansen holds a bachelor's degree in Secondary Education with an English major, a speech/drama minor, and a Master's Degree in the Art of Teaching. Colleen's third book, Stella and the Bubble Man, as well as her first two books Destination: Butte, Montana, and Ghost Children in Elkhart, Montana, were published through Sweetgrass Books. Colleen and her husband Alec and their children, Lucy and Eamon, and their grandchildren, Gus and Elsie, live in Missoula, Montana.