About the Author

Pat Schmatz grew up in rural Wisconsin, and attended Michigan State University and the University of California at Berkeley. She has supported her writing habit over the years with a variety of jobs, including forklift operator, janitor, fitness consultant, stable hand, library assistant, legal secretary, and shipping clerk. She currently lives in the Wisconsin woods of her childhood in a high-performance sustainable house that she helped to design and build.

Pat is the author of a middle-grade novel, Mrs. Estronsky and the U.F.O.. Her second book, Circle the Truth, was a 2003 recipient of a Fellowship grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Mousetraps, a young adult novel, will be released by Carolrhoda Books in October of 2008.

If you would like to contact the author, email her at pschmatz@hotmail.com.

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