Betsy Ortega lives in Fort Collins, CO with her husband and children. She graduated with an MA in Speech Communication from Colorado State University and taught college level communication courses at CSU and FRCC for 10 years. After having her children, she shifted her teaching focus from the college level to early childhood. She has worked in Fort Collins with the city as a pre-school teacher and with the Poudre school district as an early childhood para-professional. She also helped form her own neighborhood pre-school co-op and now writes as a free-lance writer focusing on early-child and family issues.