After spending her childhood coming up with new episodes to her favorite sitcoms instead of sleeping, Laura Brown decided to try her hand at writing and never looked back. A hopeless romantic, she married her high school sweetheart, though they didnтАЩt even go to the same high school! They live in Massachusetts with two cats with cerebellar hypoplasia, and an energetic kid who keeps them on their toes. LauraтАЩs been hard of hearing her entire life but didnтАЩt start learning ASL until college, when her disability morphed from an inconvenience to a positive part of her identity. ItтАЩs important to her to create strong, competent characters with hearing loss, as she didnтАЩt have that growing up. At home the closed captioning is always on, lights flash with the doorbell, and hearing aids are sometimes optional.