J.F. Riordan

J.F. Riordan is a literary fiction author from Washington Island best known for the “North of the Tension Line” series of novels. She was born in New Jersey but grew up in Wisconsin and Michigan as a child. When she was fourteen, she made up her mind to become an opera singer and she was lucky enough to have singing talent. After two years of high school and aged sixteen, she got admission to the University of New Mexico, where she studied voice. She would, later on, go on to study music in Milwaukee and Chicago before becoming a professional singer. She came back to the Midwest after becoming homesick due to years traveling across the world. Riordan completed her college degree and qualified to become a high school teacher. She was an inner-city school teacher for three years before she quit becoming the program officer for a foundation. JF currently lives with her husband and two canines on Washington Island.