Language of Flowers (Diffenbaugh) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—January 20, 1978
• Raised—Chico, California, USA
• Education—Stanford University
• Currently—lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh was born in San Francisco and raised in Chico, California. After studying creative writing and education at Stanford, she went on to teach art and writing to youth in low-income communities. She and her husband, PK, have three children: Tre’von, eighteen; Chela, four; and Miles, three. Tre’von, a former foster child, is attending New York University on a Gates Millennium Scholarship. Diffenbaugh and her family currently live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her husband is studying urban school reform at Harvard.  (From the publisher.)