KERRY HANSEN

FUN FACTS 

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1. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume, is my favorite kids’ book.
    

2. In 6th grade, I had short hair and was regularly mistaken for my brother.
    

3. When I lived in Florida, I caught lizards and let them clamp on my earlobes.
    

4. At 13, I had a massive crush on Luke Skywalker in Return of the Jedi and hung the movie poster on the back of my door.
    

5. I worked several jobs as a teenager: cashier at Wendy’s, hostess at a Mexican restaurant, babysitter, and summer camp counselor.
    

6. At the end of my senior year, a teacher persuaded me to enter a writing contest. I won $1,500, enough for a prom dress and part of my college tuition.
    

7. I had a freaky experience with a Ouija board and to this day, won’t go near one.
    

8. The most famous people I've met are Mister Rogers and Brett Favre.
    

9. I can whistle Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” and the theme to The Andy Griffith Show.
    

10. We own a crested gecko named Bilbo, guinea pig named Beans, and Great Dane named Biggs.
     

11. Without realizing it, I’ll sing the same line of a song, over and over, and over and over, and over and over…
     

12. Because redheads are going extinct (according to the internet), I include one in all of my novels.
     

13. I broke my nose 4 ½ times.  
     

14. My family watches Elf and Groundhog Day every year.
     

15. My favorite writing quote of all-time is from Joss Whedon, writer-director of The Avengers: “Make it dark, make it grim, make it rough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke."