Award-winning author, Debbie Roppolo grew up in the Blackland Prairie region of Texas, where miles of grassland and her horse were her best friends. Yep, that's right, a modern version of Laura Ingalls. She is the author of Amelia Frump and her Peanut Butter Loving Imagination, and Amelia Frump and her Peanut Butter Loving Imagination is Cooking Up a Peanut Butter Storm, which won the Purple Dragonfly Book Award. Cooking is her second passion, and Roppolo holds the honor of being a six-time award-winning baker, and the author of an award-winning cookbook. Married for over twenty-three years, she resides in the Texas Hill Country with her husband and two children.