Aurora Dulcinea Medina, a struggling reader in elementary school, fell in love with books and reading when she discovered Shel Silverstein, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beverly Cleary, E.B. White, P. L. Travers, L. Frank. Baum, Alexander Key, Mary Norton, and Judy Blume. Public and school libraries served as Aurora's escape into magical worlds. Once, while reading to herself during her 5th grade class, Aurora laughed so much that her classmates nicknamed her, "Aurora Medina, the laughing hyena!"

 

Aurora wrote her first children's story in 3rd grade. She began keeping a diary after reading The Diary of Anne Frank in 4th grade. Inspired by her high school English teacher and speech coach, Aurora graduated from Adams State University with a major in English, a minor in speech and theater, and a master's degree in counseling. She's taught journalism, newspaper, and yearbook. And she counseled young people as a school counselor and as a high school principal.

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Today, Aurora works as a college counselor at Denver Academy, a private school that serves neurodivergent learners. In her spare time, she devotes herself to documenting the adventures and misadventures of her beloved, mischievous characters (whom she relates to, just a little too much). 

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Aurora enjoys reading, tearing down houses (and rebuilding them too), baking bread, drawing and painting, growing daisies, hugging trees, and dancing with her dog, Luna.

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She adores laughing. And she cherishes her family.

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