Jeanie Franz Ransom

Jeanie Franz Ransom graduated with a liberal-arts degree in American Studies from Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. She started writing for publication when she sold my first story to Seventeen magazine at age 17. Since then, she has continued to write for magazines and newspapers, worked as a radio station copywriter, a public relations writer, an editor and writer at a bed-and-breakfast travel magazine, and as a writer at several different advertising agencies. She also picked up a master’s degree in counseling and worked part-time for five years as an elementary school counselor, which was a perfect job for a children’s writer.