Diana R. Jenkins is the author of more than four hundred stories, articles, plays, books, and comic strips for children and teens. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Special Education from Ball State University and a Reading Specialist Master's Degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. After twenty-plus years as a special education teacher, she became a freelance writer. Her books of plays include Just Deal With It! Funny Readers Theatre for Life's Not-So-Funny Moments, All Year Long! Funny Readers Theatre for Life's Special Times, and Spotlight on Saints! A Year of Funny Readers Theater for Today's Catholic Kids. She's also written two comic collections: The Stepping Stones Comic Collection and The Saints of Note Comic Collection. Her other books include The Stepping Stones Journals, a middle grade novel, and Goodness Graces! Ten Short Stories About the Sacraments, a collection of short stories. She lives in Montgomery, Ohio with her husband, a medical physicist.