Tanya Biank is a Fulbright scholar, an award-winning journalist, a former reporter for the "Fayetteville Observer," a monthly columnist for www.military.com and a contributing writer for "Military Spouse Magazine." Mark Gordon Productions and Touchstone TV have developed a pilot for a one hour TV series based on the book. The daughter of a career Army officer, Tanya lives in Virginia, with her husband, an Army officer assigned to the Pentagon.