Chrysa Smith is a ‘double decade’ freelance writer, who admits to having turned a love for writing into loving what she writes about—namely home, food, fashion, beauty and lifestyle. She says her work allows her to be a perennial student—always learning something new from interviews with fascinating people like designer Anne Cole and Chef Douglas Rodriguez. More recently, her pets have given her fodder for some hairy tales she has penned in her The Adventures of the Poodle Posse series, picture book, Once upon a Poodle and her newest book, The Upside-Down Gardener. She has taken her laptop on the road, conducting  writing seminars and school author programs for those from preschool through highschool. A suburban dweller and birthright NYC girl, she is delighted to be writing for children--a great, little audience.