JEAN BOGGIO is a graduate of Allegheny College in Western Pennsylvania, with a BA in Drama.  She went on to earn an MS Ed. in Education from City College in New York, a BS in Nursing from Rutgers, College of Nursing, and a MS in Nursing from Rutgers University.

She grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey, lived in New York City for many years after college, then moved back to New Jersey to Hunterdon County to raise her two children, Julia and Sarah. 

Jean has been an actress, an elementary school teacher and teacher of piano, a professional quilter, the owner of a small service business, a certified organic market gardner, and a psychiatric nurse.  She now lives with her five cats in a house in Maine that she renovated, and writes nonfiction.

Her older daughter, Julia, is a London-based professional photographer (see author photo) http://www.juliaboggiophotography who skyrocketed to fame with her YouTube posting of the video of the first dance at her wedding to film maker James Derbyshire.  They performed the last dance of the movie Dirty Dancing and started a trend in wedding planning with three million hits on the site and ended up dancing with Patrick Swayze on Oprah.  Her younger daughter is the General Manager of the premier six-screen art house cinema in Maine, and plans to further her career goals in the film industry as she returns to college to complete her degrees.

Jean has more books planned that will be forthcoming from Colerith Press.