Joy Scaglione was born in New York in 1982 and has been traveling the world ever since. She spent the first twelve years of her life in the United States before moving to Mexico, and then returned to the States for high school and college. In 2003 she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education and Bible &Theology. The day after graduation she hopped on a plane to Ecuador to spend 13 weeks traveling North and South America with a singing group. She then returned to Mexico and spent four years teaching second and third grade before moving to Thailand in 2007, where she taught third grade at an international school for three years. In 2010 she moved back to South Carolina to teach at an independent school in downtown Columbia. She also graduated from Columbia International University with her M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction / TESOL.

Joy’s future plans are to move to London to drink tea all day long and watch endless shows in the West End. When she is not teaching or keeping her many websites in working order, she likes to indulge in amateur photography and freelance journalism, as well as reading, singing, watching movies, and hanging out with her awesome friends.