Mary Jo Rabe

Mary Jo Rabe grew up on a farm between Sabula and Miles in Eastern Iowa. She earned a B.A. in German and Mathematics from Michigan State University, completing her junior year in Freiburg, Germany, where she met her future husband Franz. She then completed her MLS at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, encountering and falling in love with science fiction for the first time. Mary Jo and Franz returned to Germany in 1976 and live in a small town in the Black Forest. Mary Jo has worked in a small special library in Freiburg, Germany, since August 1976. In Blue Sunset she combines her love of science fiction with her even older (since junior year in high school) love of Spoon River Anthology.