Jodie Toohey lives in Davenport with her husband, two kids, cat and dog. She runs her own business, Jodie Toohey Writing Innovations, which offers writing and editing services. She is also attending classes to earn her MBA and volunteers for the Midwest Writing Center. In 2008, she published a book of love poetry aimed at pre-teen and teen girls, Crush and Other Love Poems for Girls. She is currently circulating two young adult novels through agents and publishers and is researching her third. Jodie recently won first place in the Bettendorf Public Library's Love Poetry Contest, will have two entries published in the forthcoming in MWC’s Creative Writing Primer and her poetry chapbook is set for release in the spring of 2013.