Barbara Stark-Nemon grew up in the U.S, listening to her German grandfather’s stories of the family's former lives in Europe. The magic of these stories became the inspiration for Even in Darkness, her first novel. Barbara holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Art History and a MS in Speech-language Pathology from the University of Michigan. She became a full-time writer of novels and family histories after a 30-year teaching and clinical career working with deaf and language-disabled children. Barbara lives and works in Ann Arbor and Northport, Michigan.