Sharon Finch O’Maley was born in Xenia, Ohio to a preacher and his wife, Ralph and Ruth Finch. She moved with her parents and older sister, Marilyn, to Indiana, New Jersey, Colorado, and back to Ohio and to Nebraska through her childhood. She graduated from college with a degree in Elementary Education. She taught school for the following seven years. <br>Her dream of being a missionary in a Spanish-speaking country came true in 1982 when she went to Costa Rica for five months. In 1986, she was assigned to go to the Dominican Republic for three years. Many of the stories in “At the Break Of Dawn” are her experiences with the people she loved so much. <br>Sharon is presently living in Austin, Texas and is the mother of a daughter, Ruth who attended University of Texas in Austin, Texas and is now married to her high school sweetheart, Steve Largaespada and has two young sons. <br>Sharon has been published in various magazines, newspapers, and daily devotional books. She was a daily blogger on Dr. Strains CBD for 3 years writing over 1100 blogs in that time.
