Born Tsiphuneah M. Becker, her friends and family call her "Steph." Always a fan of second breakfasts, hobbits, and Grimm’s fairy tales, she spent her childhood afternoons buried in a book or acting out scenes from her imagination in the woods beside her house.

?In high school, she discovered theater and began a recording of The Hobbit for her younger siblings, complete with different voices for each character.

Today, T.M. Becker lives in South Central Pennsylvania with her husband and nine children "in a log house full of books, soccer gear, and perpetually mismatched socks."