Rachael Herron received her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College. She lives in Oakland, CA, with her family and has way more animals than she ever planned to, though no sheep or alpacas (yet). She learned to knit at the age of five, and generally only puts the needles down to eat, write, or sleep, and sometimes not even then. She is the founder of the hugely popular blog Yarnagogo.com.