Rebecca Velez graduated with a B.A. in Public Relations Journalism in 1991. Unable to find a job in her field, she became a first-grade teacher. She’s published in the BJU Review and Keys for Kids. When she stopped working outside her home in order to care for her newborn son, she began writing Such a Time As This during naptimes. Five years (and a daughter) later, she completed the book and presented it to her maternal grandmother as an 80th birthday gift, just before discovering she was having a third child. Rebecca, her husband, and three children live in Massachusetts.