Tanya Rucosky Noakes was born in the mountains east of Pittsburgh. She has degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in English Literature and Information Science, and a further degree in Environmental Education from Slippery Rock University. She has worked as an archivist, editor, organic farmer, teacher, foreign aid worker, and park ranger, and has wandered around Europe, the American West, and spent several years in Thailand and Taiwan. Currently she has wandered over to the other side of the planet where she owns an organic farm and runs a community environmental organization in rural Australia.

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