Roberta Lynn Marks Joyner is a retired family nurse practitioner with 33 years of service in health care and 23 years as an FNP. She is a graduate from ECU with a BSN in 1988 and an MSN in 1997. She received board certification as an FNP in 1998.
Frog Song is her first published work. She composed the story in June 2009 and created the Illustrations the following summer of 2010. She lives with her husband Todd and her son Jacob in North Carolina.