IVANA B. DUNNE was born and raised in Scranton, PA and graduated from MI School of Sleep Hygiene and OR Rhyming School for Non-Rhymers. She became inspired to write picture books in verse after years of bedtime-reading to her bewildered neighbors. Now she gets story ideas from her condo association. Her award-winning poetry has been read at the Pandemic Day-Drinkers Book Club, where she received their highest award for poetry: a half-bottle of chardonnay. When she isn’t writing, she loves re-counting her toilet paper rolls in case she counted wrong the first time. She lives with her life partner, condo association board president U.R. McNutty in New York City.