Roxie Fiste

Author/illustrator/caregiver

My biggest wish as a high school/college student was to illustrate and write children’s books. When my first story was well developed, a prof of mine pushed me to send it into a publishing house. Unfortunately, I submitted to the wrong publisher, twice! Then life got in the way. Marriage, having a child, an illness that took a while to overcome, then seeing my 21 year old daughter badly injured from a medical treatment - ta-da, a caregiver…
In the past nine years, I’ve spent a lot of time taking care of my parents, as well as my daughter. After my parents passed and my daughter improved I felt it was time to stretch myself by becoming an author/illustrator of children’s books. Life has become a balancing act between caregiving and publishing books!