Willo Davis Roberts grew up in Michigan and lived in Washington State with her husband, David, who is also a writer/photographer. She has four adult sons and daughters and twelve grandchildren whose activities have often contributed to her ideas for stories. She has published 92 books, 29 of them for young people. Her books have won many state awards, and she is a three time winner of the Edgar Allen Poe Award. She has traveled extensively in the U.S.