Ginny Rorby
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Ginny Rorby

Teen & Young Adult | Children's Audiobooks | Literature & Fiction
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I was raised in Winter Park, Florida, where we lived on a lake. It was a Purple gallinule that sparked my interest in wildlife and eventually my love of all animals with the exception of palmetto bugs (big roaches.) Purple gallinules look a little like coots, but are purplish blue, have yellow legs, long toes, and a beak the color of candy corn. Big Foot came back every summer for five years, padding in and out of our kitchen at will for handouts. After high school and a short stint as a bank teller, I moved to Miami and went to work as a flight attendant for National Airlines. In 1980, Pan American Airways bought us and I worked for them for another 9 years. About midway through my 23 yearlong flying career, I realized that if I didn't want to wait on tray-tables for the rest of my life, I needed an education. I enrolled in the University of Miami to pursue an undergraduate degree in biology, specializing in ornithology--the study of birds. It was an accidental encounter with an abandoned dog that launched my 'writing career.' After taking eight years to finish my undergraduate studies, I went to graduate school and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida International University. I took early retirement from Pan Am and moved to where I would never be hot again. I now live on the chilly coast of northern California. I share my three-acre, forested space with skunks, possums, raccoons, an occasional black bear and a mountain lion. A Little Brown bat lived in the rafters of my upstairs bathroom for seven years sleeping (thankfully) directly above the sink. If I could come back as an animal I would like to return as a Turkey vulture. Some one else kills your food for you and the rest of the time you get to ride thermals of warm air with your friends or hang out on fence posts with your wings spread to the sun. Being a bird and flying, what more could one ask for?
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