Jennifer Smith Culotta, a retired teacher who taught early childhood special education for twenty-five years, has a master’s degree in education. She is also a graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature, and has taken postgraduate classes in writing, poetry, and “life-writing.”

She has been published in the Baton Rouge newspaper, and one of her articles is called “Happy Father’s Day Mom”. Jennifer has lived her entire life in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has two daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah Ashley, who are both sixteen years old. Her daughters are not twins; both were adopted at birth and are only three months apart in age! Elizabeth and Sarah Ashley are the absolute light of Jennifer’s life. Much of Jennifer’s writing is based on real-life events involving her unique and fun-loving daughters.