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 severely disabled students, a formative experience 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 home, 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 of two boys, substitute teacher, home remodeler, and--last but not least--novelist.