Molly B. Burnham grew up in Washington DC. She has been a dog walker, ice-cream scooper, and worked in a number of secondhand bookshops. School was sometimes hard for her, but none-the-less she went on to hold a Masters in Elementary Ed., and then to teach kindergarten, third grade, and in a therapeutic school for middle and high school children. Later, she earned an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University and went on to win the beloved Sid Fleischman Award for Humor. Molly lives in Western Massachusetts with her family where you can find her writing, walking, teaching college students (and sometimes playing ping pong). Most importantly, though, is that she loves to laugh and she takes humor extremely seriously.