Born in New York, Renae started her life on a quaint farm on Twelve Mile Creek. Her parents divorced after she turned five. Shortly after, the moving began. After surviving basic and AIT, Renae was assigned to Sinop, Turkey. There she met and married a fellow military person. Twenty-seven years later she still likes to tell people how all her husband’s friends said they wouldn’t make it, and yet they did. In 2012, after raising their two boys, Renae and her husband moved to the Twin Cities where she returned to college in 2013 to get her BA in Creative Writing. Once an avid writer at Writing.com, she has returned to her roots.