Heather Scharf is originally from Fresno, California. She received a degree in Psychology from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and went on to study Fashion Design and Merchandising at FIDM in San Francisco. After spending eight years designing clothes for Gymboree, she followed her true passion in life and became a wedding and family photographer. It had always been her dream to write a children's book, so when she was put on pregnancy bedrest in her Telegraph Hill apartment in San Francisco, she wrote her first one. She currently lives in Lafayette, California with her husband and 4 children.
