Natasha Fondren spent the first thirty-five years of her life in Ohio. She grew up playing the piano; reading in trees and attics and closets; and swimming and diving. For college, she went off to the Cleveland Institute of Music to study piano performance.

After conservatory, she moved to Chagrin Falls and taught piano for nearly fifteen years. She served on the State Executive Board in Ohio for the Music Teachers National Association.

She never dreamed she'd be a writer. It all happened by accident. It took nine years of writing stories every day before she realized that another career was calling.