Geraldine Burrows was born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and spent her earliest years living on the campus of a school for the deaf and blind, where her parents were teachers. Since completing her education, she has worked as a journalist, a community organizer, and a staff member of a legal aid office. She now lives in a seaport village in Rhode Island. She spends her non- writing time with a husband, two sons, a backyard garden, and a pair of calico cats.