This article presents an interview with Jane Piirto, a Trustees' Professor at Ashland University in Ohio, Director of Talent Development Education, teaching in the departments of Curriculum and Instruction and in Educational Leadership. Her scholarly books are "Talented Children and Adults" (3 editions, latest 2007 from Prufrock Press); "Understanding Those Who Create" (2 editions); "Understanding Creativity"; "Luovuus"; and "My Teeming Brain: Understanding Creative Writers." She has published many scholarly articles in journals and anthologies, and is an award-winning scholar, poet, and novelist. She has an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Northern Michigan University. In the interview, Piirto shares her experiences that led her to the field of gifted education and to creativity.