Kristi Wientge is originally from Ohio where she grew up writing stories about animals and, her favorite, a jet-setting mouse. After studying to become a teacher for children with special needs, she spent several years exploring the world from China to England, teaching her students everything from English to how to flip their eyelids inside out. She spent fourteen years raising her family in her husband’s home country of Singapore. Now she lives outside Chicago. She is the author of Karma Khullar’s Mustache and Honeybees and Frenemies.