Before publishing her debut novel, "The Kaleidoscope of Destiny," Sarah Ignatius worked for many years as a human rights lawyer and as a nonprofit executive director. She taught immigration and asylum law at Boston College Law School for many years and is the coauthor of Immigration Law and the Family. She also authored a detailed report on the US asylum system for Harvard Law School's National Asylum Study Project, and her legal articles have appeared in the Harvard Human Rights Journal, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Benders Immigration Bulletin, and Immigration Briefings. Ignatius has received recognition from the New England Society of Children's Books Writers & Illustrators and the National League of American Pen Women as well as Glimmer Train, and was selected as a Somerville Arts Council Literature Artist Fellow.Ignatius graduated from Stanford University and Georgetown University Law Center. She is half-Armenian and lives in Massachusetts with her family.