JA Johnston is a native New Yorker, growing up in Richmond Hill, Queens and spending summers on Long Island. JA is the youngest of six children, four sisters, and a brother. The aunt to eighteen nieces and nephews.<br>She came to South Carolina to attend college, where she met and fell in love with her future husband at a Clemson Football Game (neither one of them attended Clemson). In college, she loved creative writing classes and would make up other stories, but never wrote them down, until now. <br>She now lives in the upstate area of South Carolina with her husband Stephen, three daughters Rebecca, Emma, Coraline(Yes she's named after the movie!) and a miniature dachshund named Ginger.<br><em>In July 2007 she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. With the love and support of her family (And after many stepping stones), she had a double mastectomy in February 2008.uthor Biography</em>
