Welcome to my little corner of the internet. Here you'll find XX, XX, and XX. You can edit this by clicking "customize" then "homepage slider". You will see a block of text with this writing. This is an area for describing the homepage slider, but I think you could also put your mini-bio here since you mentioned wanting some 'about me' info on the homepage. It's a bit of a workaround but I think it might actually work.
I'm just typing here to see how much you can possibly add before it looks silly. And I need to words to look like a normal paragraph, not a single sentence that's been copy and pasted ten times. But I will copy this and paste it again, because I've run out of word ideas.