nDusti Bowling is the bestselling and award-winning author of Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, The Canyons Edge, and Across the Desert, among other books for young readers. Dusti holds a bachelors degree in Psychology and lives in Arizona with her husband, three daughters, a dozen tarantulas, a gopher snake named Burrito, a king snake name Death Noodle, and a cockatiel named Gandalf the Grey. n