I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.