Heather N QuinnHeather N Quinn is the pen name of the mother and daughter writing team of Heather MacDonald and Quinn Slobodin. They reside with their families in Ontario, Canada.Heather was born in Scotland and emigrated to Canada with her family in 1963. She grewup in Ontario on a small hobby farm. In 1990, she moved to England with her husband and young daughter, Quinn. Heather worked as a magazine features writer for national magazines and had three more children while living in the UK. Returning to Canada in 1998, she was a full-time mum, during which time she had some short fiction published.Today, Heather lives in the country outside Ottawa, Ontario, where she tends a big garden filled with vegetables and flowers and dreams up stories for My Country Cousins. She loves to cook and bake, and to spend time with her family. Writing with Quinn brings her great joy.Quinn was born in Canada. She moved with her parents to England at the age of two and spent eight formative years on the Wirral Peninsula. Her childhood in England, and then her returning to Canada at the age of ten, is what helps her to understand Gemma, the protagonist in the My Country Cousins series.Growing up in a big family whose motto was the same as the Merrimans of Almosta Farm, If you can't behave, be funny, Quinn has lots of amusing childhood memories to draw upon for her writing. Today, she has two little girls of her own. Their antics continue to provide lots of fun things to write about. Read More Read Less