About Rebecca Ramsey
Becky now lives with her family in Greer, South Carolina, where she spends her days writing and running all over creation taking her children places.
Becky grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, where her father was an agricultural engineering professor (and member of the Drainage Hall of Fame--it really does exist) and her mother taught preschool (which explains Becky's compulsion for saving egg cartons.) Her home was often filled with her daddy's graduate students, who came from countries like Israel, Canada, Nigeria, Malaysia, and Italy, so Becky and her little brother Steve grew up eating all kinds of mysterious things at pot lucks and wondering what life was like in other places.
As Becky got older, she announced that she wanted to be a Doctor-Writer-Baptist Nun, if there was such a thing. But at college she fell in love with a boy named Todd and found out that she fainted at the sight of blood, so the nun-doctor thing was out. She graduated from North Carolina State University with a degree in biochemistry and married Todd four weeks later.
After five moves in four years, the bedraggled young couple said goodbye to the Air Force and Todd joined Michelin. Becky and Todd settled in Greer, South Carolina, and within a few years their house was full of sippy cups and squealy children. When Sam, the youngest, was eight months old, Todd and Becky took a deep breath and turned their lives upside down with a move to France. For four years they lived in a small village outside Clermont Ferrand, across the street from a white headed antique tomboy named Madame Mallet, the self-appointed instructor of all things French.
Over the years Becky has taught high school chemistry, ran an antique booth, worked as a seamstress, directed a summer day camp for homeless kids, taught preschool, and worked in a lab. She was writing all the while, just for herself, believing that real people don't get published. Now she's thrilled to proclaim that they do!