Celeste Shally is mother and full-time caregiver to her adopted son with autism and intellectual disability. She is the author of Since We’re Friends: An Autism Picture Book and The Bully Blockers: Standing Up for Classmates with Autism. She and her husband, Mike, and their sons Cooper and Jaxon, live in Northwest Arkansas. In her free time, she enjoys reading, sewing, and trying to keep her flowers alive in the Arkansas heat.