Carolyn DiPasquale grew up in Wisconsin, graduating from UW-Milwaukee with a double major in French and English. In 1983, she moved to Middletown, Rhode Island where she raised three children while pursuing her Master’s in English at the University of Rhode Island. Over her career, she taught writing and literature at various New England colleges; worked as a technical writer at the Naval Underseas Warfare Center in Newport; and wrote winning grants for Turning Around Ministries, an aftercare program for ex-offenders in Newport. She’s been an active member of the Newport Round Table, a professional writing group (founded in 1995), since 2013.

DiPasquale currently lives in Richmond, Rhode Island where she has started working on a sequel to Reckless Grace. She’s also begun writing children’s books. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and baking with healthy ingredients, hiking and trapshooting with her husband Phil, and volunteering at the New Hope Chapel Food Pantry in Carolina, Rhode Island.