Known by many children as the "teacher who dances on his desk", Gene Gagliano is a retired elementary school teacher and writer with a great sense of humor, who lives with his wife Carol at the base of the Bighorn Mountains in Buffalo, Wyoming. A member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Wyoming Writers, Wyoming Poets, and the local chapter of the International Reading Association. Gene is the author of C is for Cowboy, a Wyoming Alphabet and Four Wheels West, a Wyoming Numbers Book. Gene and Carol are members of a professional singing group, the Polyester Blends. He enjoys making his educational and entertaining school visits, as well as hiking, canoeing, reading, painting and gardening.