Tracy Kasaboski was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, but grew up in the town of Deep River, Ontario. She has been a writer since the age of five, around the same time her mother bought her a plastic typewriter. She is the co-author of The Occupied Garden, a memoir detailing her grandparents' experiences in Nazi occupied Holland. The book was written with her sister, novelist Kristen den Hartog. Tracy Kasaboski lives with her husband and two sons in the small community of Laurentian Hills in the Ottawa Valley.