Amy Ackley

(from Amazon.com)

Amy Ackley is a mother of three whose career has run the gamut from public administration to labor relations for top automakers. A storyteller since childhood, Ackley left home at the age of sixteen and the need to support herself caused her to abandon writing fiction for many years. She picked up a pen again after her first child was born, and she began writing Sign Language seven years ago. Drawn from her personal experiences with losing friends and family members to cancer, Sign Language is the story of a teenaged girl whose father's battle with cancer sends her into an emotional tailspin from which she is determined to recover.