Ashley, Kimberly: - Kim Ashley is a writer and educator with a master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction and over twenty years of classroom teaching experience. She enjoys writing stories for her students that engage them in literacy and a love for reading.As a child, farm life and peering into the dark skies of the Kansas prairie fueled her imagination and sparked her desire to understand how everything connects to the present.A reader of biographies and non-fiction, she weaves new understanding into the characters of her stories, to entertain and enlighten her readers about the plight of the human experience.Besides teaching, her passions include music, anthropology, neuroscience, and philosophy. She loves hiking in the mountains, walking on the beach, and creating restful, creative spaces.She is a mother of four, grandmother of two, and lives in Lawrence with her cat, Dawkins.