Jeannie Davide-Rivera grew up on 19th Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn — the kind of neighborhood where everybody knew your grandmother, and your grandmother knew everybody's business. She holds an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction and has spent her life doing two things: telling stories, and figuring out how the world works when the world wasn't built for the way you think.

Her nonfiction is personal, practical, and honest. Her autism memoirs come from lived experience — not theory, not clinical distance, but the real, daily, sometimes-funny-sometimes-brutal truth of navigating a world designed for someone else's brain. Her herbal remedies books come from the same place all her best work does: a stubborn need to understand things from the roots up.