Gail grew up Ohio moving to northern California in her early twenties. Her daughters Laura and Michelle were born in Salinas, CA, and when they were very young, they moved to Charlotte, NC and later north to Urbana, MD. One more move took them to the beautiful Pacific Northwest where Gail and her family have lived for the last 35 years. Throughout her career as a Speech-Language Pathologist, Gail wrote and published instructional programs for children with special needs. Ten years ago, she turned her love of writing to fiction completing the three awarding-winning historical fiction novels in her Lavender Meuse Trilogy series. She is currently writing a cozy mystery series that takes place in Wales. Gail self-publishes through her publishing house, Noble Press.