Heidi LM Jacobs was born and raised in Edmonton, AB. While completing her BA and MA in English at the University of Alberta, she worked in a wide variety of retail jobs, including selling shoes and clothes at West Edmonton Mall. After receiving a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska, she taught English in North Carolina. While living in the south, people repeatedly asked, "You aren't from around here, are you?", which inspired her to not only think about where she was from but to write about Edmonton as a place. Returning to Canada, she saw her country in new ways and took particular joy in reconnecting with Canadians' very particular kind of humour. She wrote the first drafts of Molly while teaching in Windsor, completing her Masters of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Western Ontario, and working as a librarian at the University of Windsor. In addition to researching and publishing widely in the areas of academic librarianship, Heidi is also working on a co-written, creative non-fiction book with Dale Jacobs, called 100 Miles of Baseball (forthcoming from Biblioasis Press in 2020) and a scholarly monograph about the 1934 Chatham Coloured All-Stars Baseball team, co-written with Miriam Wright (forthcoming from University of Waterloo Press in 2021).