Dee McQuesten lives in Seattle with her husband of 20 years, Pat Carroll. The owner/operator of McQuesten Framing & Fine Arts Services, Dee loves her opportunities to beautify the lives, homes and work places of others. She also Chairs The Board of a Seattle-based non-profit affiliate of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, serving at-risk teens and middle schoolers. First Chance Industries continues her commitment to an inch-by-inch betterment of our world. Though for two years she founded, published and edited the ongoing Seattle neighborhood newspaper for Madison Park, this is her first book.