Beth Peterson

Beth Peterson is the author of two fictional works for children, Myrna Never Sleeps and No Turning Back. She was born in New York, the fourth child of a very large family, and grew up in the Navy, travelling from place to place. She continued to travel as an adult, studying and working in Israel, Sweden, and India while a student at the New York-based Friends World College. She settled on the West Coast and lived in Portland, Oregon, before moving to Seattle by way of a short detour through Manhattan. During this time, she held a variety of jobs in order to support herself as a writer and photographic artist. She returned to school, graduating from The Evergreen State College with a concurrent BA/BS degree and earning a Masters in Science at the University of Washington. She lives in Seattle where she works as a research scientist at the University of Washington while continuing to wrtie childrens fiction.