Ellen Dooling Reynard spent her childhood on a cattle ranch in Jackson, Montana, where her mother home schooled her and five brothers and sisters. Raised on myths and fairy tales, the sense of wonder has never left her. A one-time editor of Parabola Magazine, and co-editor of “A Lively Oracle: A Centennial Celebration of P. L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins “(Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation, 1999), she is now retired and lives in Nevada City, California where she writes fiction and poetry.