Mary Kauffman was born into a military family in Sacramento, California in 1973. Life in the military took her all over the world to 13 countries, 14 schools and 22 states before even graduating high school. After earning several advanced degrees, she continues to pursue higher education. Immersed in new cultures and environments both in childhood and as an adult, Mary has been able to identify things that are universal in human experience and capture the feeling from a child's perspective. Mary lives with her family in WI and continues to study the behaviors of the people and the details of the scenes that surround her every day.