Virginia Kroll was born in Buffalo, New York. She attended the State University of New York at Buffalo and Canisius College and later became a fifth-grade teacher in the Buffalo area. She has written numerous short stories, articles, poems, and books, including I Wanted to Know All about God (Eerdmans, 1994) and Masai and I (Four Winds Press, 1992). Virginia is married and has six children, one grandchild, and 49 pets.