Thomasina Tissue grew up on Strong's Neck, Long Island. Captured in her heart at a young age, her stories are woven from a tapestry of a time spent, long ago, in the salty ocean air, walking along beaches, laughing with friends, and mixing her own wild imagination with regular and not-so-regular things that happened to her. And there the stories bided their time for over forty years. After leaving Long Island, she grew, married, and became a teacher of reading and writing, all the while continuing to feel the longing to write her own stories. 

     Her debut novel, The Water’s Edge, was inspired by the original Setalcott people of the Setauket area, of Long Island, New York. Her second middle-grade work, Boy Patriot, was inspired by George Washington's Culper Spy Ring, and Anna "Nancy" Strong, of Strong's Neck.

      Besides writing, Thomasina’s favorite things to do are meeting other people's dogs and give them scritchies, yoga, traveling the world, pretending she is fluent in Spanish and loving on her sweet daughter Emma, and husband Dan, and not all in that order. (The photo at left was taken at Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland.)