Toni Rich was born and raised in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She graduated from the Atlantic City High School and then from St. Mary’s Hospital School of Nursing. In addition, she received her bachelor's degree from TCNJ and her master's degree from Rowan.

Toni held many positions in the nursing field…hospital nurse, nursing home staff member, camp nurse (Camp Caribou in Waterville, Maine), and cruise nurse. These were part time positions. Her full time job was school nurse at her Alma Mater…the Atlantic City High School.

She and her husband live in South Jersey. She just completed her second novel… Babyless Boomers and is working on her third.

A Special Grandma

My grandma
She taught me
So much about life

Friends are like a bank
She'd say
Bankrupt on one go to another

Food lover
Think you died and went to heaven
She always says

I was little
She would bring me
Up to the rocks on the beach

We chatted
The price of tea in China
Things like that

I was too little
I didn't understand
She was being funny

Does Yoga
Relaxes her
Takes walks

Makes clothes
Loves orange
Makes sweaters for us

Says she's old
It's not true
Says she's crazy

Never will be
She'll live forever
Lives in me too.