A St. Louis resident since 1991, Inda Schaenen is a writer, a journalist, a professor, an education researcher, and a certified English Language Arts teacher. She is the author of four young adult novels, including The 7 O'Clock Bedtime, All the Cats of Cairo, and the Saddlewise series. Her columns and essays have appeared in Salon, the St. Louis Beacon, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and in the anthology Mommy Wars.