Annette Goggin earned a bachelor’s degree at MidAmerica Nazarene University, and a master’s degree from Ball State University. She has taught high school English for thirty years, and lived in a farmhouse with her husband, Mark, for twenty-three years. The couple has two grown children. Goggin has been published in the Courier Times, and her guest column appeared in Smithsonian.com. She has the distinction of once showing a pig at the Indiana State Fair. Her e-mail address is [email protected].