Selene started her working life as a scientist with a degree in Biochemistry. After her first child was born, she decided to stay at home to care for her child with an eye to returning to school later. However, the Universe intervened and after the diagnosis and subsequent death of her oldest child to leukemia, she wanted with all her heart to help families such as hers and decided to change her career path to social work. She received her masters degree in 2000 and for the past seventeen years has helped countless of grieving parents and siblings with her message of hope in the midst of the greatest sadness of them all.

Selene has decided that all the valuable lessons she gathered from both her personal and professional experiences needed to be put into book form in order to broaden the reach of her message and bring solace to the hearts of many. She lives in Michigan with her daughter, Elise and her beloved dachshund, Snoopy