Growing up in Texas, Lorie wanted a horse more than anything else, but it simply wasn’t in the cards. So instead, she read incessantly about horses and never got on a bicycle without imagining she was getting on a horse. Knowing next-to-nothing about horses, Lorie somehow managed to talk her way into a job at Robert Redford’s Sundance Stables in her mid-twenties, determined to immerse herself in the horse world and make up for lost time. She moved to Southern Oregon and bought her first horse just before she turned 30. In 2014, shortly after meeting her dream horse Indie, Lorie decided she wanted to find a way to connect kids with the magic of horses and the idea of Pony Dreams was born. The idea turned into a reality with the publication of The Smallest Horse in 2017.