Nancy Kunhardt Lodge has a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Renaissance art history. She taught at Tufts, Boston, and American Universities. She has written scholarly articles and delivered papers at Renaissance conferences in Italy and the U.S., among them the Frick Collection of Art, the Corcoran Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Resident Associates Program. She is a member of SCBWI, and the College Art Association.  She has published three children’s books and is working on the fourth novel in a series about Lucy Nightengale’s dare devil adventures. Dr. Lodge is the granddaughter of Dorothy Kunhardt, author of the children’s classic, Pat the Bunny. She lives in West Newbury, MA with her husband and  Corgi, Neville.