J. Elizabeth Mills grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, spending many wonderful hours reading at the Squirrel Hill branch of the Carnegie Library system. After graduating from University of Michigan with a double major in English and French, she moved to Minneapolis, MN to pursue an internship at Milkweed Editions. She also worked as a bookseller at Wild Rumpus. She then moved to New York, NY to be a children's book editor at Scholastic Inc. After seven-and-a-half years editing and writing, working with authors, agents, packagers, and illustrators, she relocated to Seattle, WA to create content for toys and games at Cranium Inc. Now she is a freelance children's book editor and author, writing fiction and nonfiction and working with authors on their stories. Her picture book, THE SPOOKY WHEELS ON THE BUS, will be published in July 2010.