Amy Meislin Pollack

Amy Meislin Pollack has been reading and writing ever since she can remember. The Adventures of Jelly Bean first came into being when the author's fourth-grade teacher used to ask her to get up in front of the class and tell the stories about this character she would make up as she went along. Several years later she started writing these stories down, and would work on them here and there in any free time she had during her teaching career and raising her three children. Now retired from teaching - a wide range of subjects and grade levels - she lives in central New Jersey with her husband and their dog named Bunny. The silver lining of the Covid pandemic for Ms. Pollack was that she was more or less forced, after approximately sixty years, to finish her Jelly Bean books. It had become just about impossible to think up any more excuses to tell anyone who asked why she had not finished it yet. She still pursues her writing career - several Jelly Bean sequels are in the works - and the only thing she loves doing more is spending time with two sons and one daughter, their spouses, and her six wonderful grandchildren (who fortunately do not live too faraway!).