Cari Noga is a writer, reader, mother, bicyclist and wine lover. Cari grew up in Detroit and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Marquette University in Milwaukee in 1991. In 2001 she began a freelance career based in Traverse City, Michigan. Her first book, Road Bicycling: Michigan, a guidebook to bicycling in the state, was published by the Globe-Pequot Press in 2005. Her essay, “All The Comforts of Home,” was selected for publication in Chicken Soup for the Wine Lovers Soul, published in 2007. After aspiring to write fiction for many years, she wrote her first novel, Sparrow Migrations, as part of National Novel Writing Month in 2010. The novel’s protagonist, Robby Palmer, a twelve-year-old boy with autism, and his parents, Sam and Linda, embody many experiences Cari and her husband have had as parents to a son with autism. Cari lives in Traverse City with her husband and their two children. In her spare time she enjoys writing haiku on Twitter. |
