These days, my home is in Portland, Oregon, which is a different kind of magic-and while I moved away after graduating high school and haven’t been back since,īut my heart will always love the humidity, lightning bugs, and warm accents. Like many of my characters, I grew up in the South (Durham, North Carolina, to be It’s my goal to write the kinds of books that kids will want to stash in bathroom (I remember this book most often being eitherĮLLA ENCHANTED by Gail Carson Levine or FAR TO GO by Noel Streatfeild.) As a grown-up, For years, I kept a book in one bathroomĬabinet in particular, just on the off-chance that I was brushing my teeth or visiting Of my inhaled medications (Albuterol and Vanceril, in caseĪs a preteen, I had books stashed all over my house in case Iįound myself nearby without reading material. In a tower that featured villains named most cleverly after two When I was about eight) was a melodrama about a princess locked I have a genetic disease called cystic fibrosis, and my healthĬhallenges have always been both a big part of my life and aīig influence on my writing. As an adult I type about 150 words per minute, so I guess it paid off! When I was eight, before computers were nearly as common as they are now, I taught myself how to type so that I could get the stories in my head down faster than I could with a pen and paper. Long Bioįor as long as I can remember, I have wanted to tell stories-probably because my imagination was so vivid as a child that I was convinced that the Three Bears slept on the other side of my queen-sized bed and that a volcano was likely to rupture underneath my house at any moment. She lives just outside Portland, Oregon, with her husband and daughter. Click here to access my press kit Short BioĬindy Baldwin is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Where the Watermelons Grow, Beginners Welcome, The Stars of Whistling Ridge, and No Matter the Distance (a Junior Library Guild selection).

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