Jinjer Stanton

Born in Montana, raised in Montana and Michigan. I knew I wanted to write the first time I read an author bio at the back of a children's book I'd read and loved. The bio said the author lived and wrote in Chicago, Ill. I'd never heard the word then, but I experienced a two level "frisson." First, there was someone half a world away who wrote this book for me! Second, books are written. I could someday write books!

I am a yoga teacher in Minneapolis, Minnesota as well as an amateur naturalist and photographer. I wrote my new book, Mousenapped for three reasons: 1) because I recently met a number of people who had talents when they were young that were, essentially, beaten out of them, 2) because I often felt like an outsider in my own family, and 3) because I am fascinated by both grasshopper mice and the capacity for creatures of differing species to befriend one another.

 

I served as a minister for several years at a new thought church where I met several people who started out life like Mousenapped protagonist Sara. They had abilities that their parents couldn't value or believe in so those parents did everything in their power (often, with the best intentions) to weed those abilities out of their child.

I am an herbalist who has experience with making salves like Aunt Nellie in the story.

I wrote the Midwest Book Awards finalist "Yoga for Every Room in Your House" because of my own struggles with finding a way to do yoga on a regular basis. My writing appears in a several publications including The Edge: Soul of the Cities (www.soulofthecities.com) and Essential Wellness (www.tcwellness.com). Articles of mine have been translated into both German and Italian.