She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Deaf Education and has done graduate work in Teaching English as a Second Language. Billie and her husband, Mike Olmon, have developed free online learning games for students of all ages and abilities on their website, www.LanguageRocks.com. Originally from the Midwest, many of Kelpin’s short stories and essays reflect her Midwest background and often touch upon her amusing adventures of living as a left-handed person in a right-handed world. Billie now lives in California with her husband their little dog, Scooter, where she writes from their RV in Newport Beach, close to their adult children.