Mary Weeks Millard began writing after she was widowed in 2000. She remarried Rev. Malcolm Millard and they live in retirement in Weymouth. Mary has three married children and five grandchildren. For the past thirteen years she has been involved in short term missionary work in Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi using her nursing and health educational skills as well as encouraging the local Christians in their faith. Her genre of writing is biography and children’s Christian fiction.