Hannah’s father suffers flashbacks, drinks too much and patrols the house with his assault rifle. She was still flying when she wrote Dolphin Sky, so most of it was written while she was standing up in the lower galley of a DC-10 airplane. Hannah Gale starts volunteering at a horse stable because she needs a place to escape. Twelve-year-old Hannah begins work at a nearby stable as a way to connect with her father in Iraq when he comes home missing a leg and emotionally shattered, parallels between him and rescued horses begin. Ginny has since received her MFA in creative writing. An editor at the newspaper encouraged her to continue writing. She had been working as a flight attendant for fifteen years when wrote an editorial about an abandoned dog and sent it to a local newspaper.

She writes by hand under a plum tree on a deck overlooking a creek, facing a redwood forest (with at least one cat in her lap). The Outside of a Horse Dolphin Sky and Freeing Finch, the inspiring story of a. Because she does some wildlife rehabilitation, she frequently has an assortment of critters staying with her (past residents have included a bat, a hummingbird, a raven, a turkey, and numerous baby birds). Ginny Rorby is the author of six MG/YA novels: How to Speak Dolphin. She now lives close to nature, on the northern coast of California, supporting the appetites of five cats (the fourth and fifth appropriately named Spare Cat and Extra Cat), three birds, and a snake named Rosie.

Ginny Rorby was born in Washington, D.C., but spent her first twenty years in Winter Park, Florida.

The outside of a horse by ginny rorby