Sarah Fitzgerald Hobel was born in Wurzburg, Germany; grew up in Syracuse, New York; graduated college at Jacksonville University in Florida and since then has called Switzerland home. She has a husband, three grown children, a cat and a dog. She has worked with children in various day care and nursery school settings for over 25 years in addition to working as an English teacher. She has also been an amateur soccer coach at FC Seuzach for 15 years. When not working or writing, she enjoys training with her dog, trying a new groove out on her drum set, peering at the stars through her telescope or studying Russian.