Morgan Young Ganon was born and raised on a horse farm in the Hudson Valley. She attended Stony Brook University and SUNY New Paltz, where she is currently a junior majoring in Anthropology. She enjoys reading fiction and some of her favorite authors are Terry Pratchett for his humor, Charles Dickens for his writing style, and Chuck Klosterman for his works on American popular culture. She also enjoys the works of Alice Hoffman, Ray Bradbury, Louis L'Amour, Orson Scott Card, Walt Whitman and E.E. Cummings.