I was born on May 4, 1971, on a small village called Gedongan in Magelang County, the province of Central Java, Indonesia. Following the footsteps of my father who is a comicbook artist and cartoonist, I want to be a comicbook artist and a cartoonist too. Then, something happened that change my life completely. In 1985, I became a member of Perpustakaan Keliling or Mobile Library, a service provided by the Local Government Public Library Office of Semarang to urge young people to read. The Mobile Library comes in a small truck fully loaded by books, especially teenage romance novels, children storybook, and detective novels. It arrives in my neighborhood once a week every Wednesday at 3 PM. Through the Mobile Library I read books by Agatha Ch
Noni Eko Rahayu (Nonier) lahir di Blora, Jawa Tengah. Lulusan Fakultas Kehutanan UGM Yogyakarta ini berprofesi sebagai PNS Departemen Kehutanan, Jakarta, (dan sedang menempuh program master Tropical and International Forestry di Goettingen University). Beberapa cerpen, puisi dan artikel pernah dipublikasikan di majalah KawanKu, kandangagas.blogspot.com, dan buletin Jejak Leuser.
