Ora Smith

Genre: children's picture book

Ora is a genealogist, seamstress, lover of a good book, traveler, antiquer, upcycler, and history buff. Besides children’s books, she writes historical fiction based on her ancestors’ lives, and Christian inspirational nonfiction. Ora’s been a wife and mother for more than thirty-six years, raising four sons and one daughter. She has the three cutest grandchildren in existence.

Although she’s lived in Arizona since 1986, she spent her early life in Lake Tahoe, California, where her passion to write blossomed on a tranquil riverbank with a beautiful backdrop of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.