Carlene Wilcoxwas born in Greenville, North Carolina. She married and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in 1984, where she now lives. She is the fourth child of six children. She is a wife and mother of two. She has nine grandchildren. Six of them are girls. That is the reason she wanted to write this book?so her grandgirls wouldn?t be left in the dark about their period and to prepare them about the changes their bodies would go though without fear. Carlene now works as a private-duty nurse, a job she loves. She is a minister. She has her doctors in theology, teaches Sunday school, and works in the church.