Renata Sancken was born and raised in the Land of Lincoln, which explains her Northern accent and love of stovepipe hats. She graduated from Iowa’s Grinnell College in 2007 and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic from 2008–2010. She now lives in southern Indiana with her imported Dominican cat, Duarte. Renata works as a teen services librarian at a public library, and she has already heard all your Dewey Decimal system jokes.