Juliette Fay

Juliette Fay was born in Binghamton, N.Y. and moved to Massachusetts when she was three. She soon developed a love for books and writng in her journal. She earned a bachelor¿s degree in human development and theology from Boston College. Upon graduation she began a year-long stint in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Seattle, Washington where she served as an emergency shelter worker, and was very quickly exposed to the realities of homelessness. She returned to Boston and continued her career in human services by teaching at a school for autistic children. She then went on to achieve a master's degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She took time off from work and began to raise a family. It was then that she tried her hand at writing children's books. She soon found success there. Her title's include Shelter Me, Deep Down True, The Shortlisted Way Home and The Tumbling Turner Sisters.