About Ramsey

The child of a carpenter and a nurse, Ramsey Hootman was raised in small town Healdsburg, California. Her elementary school was one of the first to pioneer full inclusion for disabled students, which shaped her lifelong interest in and support for disability rights. As a child, she aspired to become many different things, including but not limited to: inventor, Green Peace activist, mechanic, pilot, and astronaut. Her true love, however, was reading. 

During college, where she majored in English lit, she participated in a study abroad program in London, where she hand-wrote the first draft of Courting Greta. After a brief flirtation with grad school, she ran away to teach English in mainland China for a year. Upon her return, she married a software engineer and worked for several years as a writer and marketer for a European villa rental company. Shortly after the birth of her first child, she moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she now wears many hats: parent, substitute teacher, home remodeler, scoutmaster, and--last but not least--novelist.