Ellis McHaleEllis McHale is a lifelong Oklahoman. Her love of writing and storytelling comes from her grandmother, who wrote the story of Ellis's great-grandparents' journey as homesteaders in the Dakota Territory in 1879. Ellis writes character-driven stories, both in her adult fiction and her middle grade series.Her writing is shaped by the ethos of Oklahoma itself. She was raised on red dirt across prairie pastures, with summers in South Dakota as a girl that shaped her love of writing about the natural world, and the animals who lived on that land long before her family ever pitched a claim shanty.When she isn't writing or painting, she's digging in the dirt growing food and flowers, her dogs alongside her, music blaring from a Bluetooth speaker out the windows of her house.She created the fictional town of Lawhoma Hills: the characters, the businesses, the map that makes it all real. Ellis is the founder of Pink Door Publishing. Read More Read Less