Liz Cooper grew up in Garden City, New York. She earned a BS Nursing from Catholic University , Washington DC . She switched careers, earned a masters degree in reading education, and spent 19 years in St Mary's County Public Schools (MD) as an elementary teacher and school system reading supervisor. Her entry François and the Tide came in top ten out of 5,000 entries in a contest co-sponsored by Scholastic and Woman's Day Magazine. More recently, three of her books from her Potts-Abilities series were chosen to be printed in braille and sent free of charge to 4,000 blind children in the United States. by a nonprofit organization—The American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults. Recently, late 2022, Lightswitch Learning (an educational publishing company) bought the rights to publish these books and will offer them through their website and their book reps. Liz's other books are still available through Amazon.