MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN spent more than 40 years at The New York Times, from copyboy to foreign correspondent and deputy foreign editor.  He is the author of nine books including ROOFTOPS AND ALLEYS, a children's book about a ten-year-old New Yorker.  He lives in Manhattan. more

Terri Fields is the author of fifteen books, including several middle-grade novels. She is also an educator, and was named—among other honors—Arizona’s Teacher of the Year and selected to the All-USA Teacher Team. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona. more

Gene Yang began drawing comic books in the fifth grade.  In 1997, he received the Xeric Grant, a prestigious comics industry grant, for Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks, his first comics work as an adult.  He has since written and drawn a number of titles,... more

Gene Yang began drawing comic books in the fifth grade. In 1997, he received the Xeric Grant, a prestigious comics industry grant, for Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks, his first comics work as an adult. He has since written and drawn a number of titles, including... more

ERIC LUPER is an avid poker player who, among other things, once managed a dry-cleaning store. He lives in Albany, New York. Big Slick is his first novel. more

Lisa Fiedler is the author of a number of other works of fiction, including Curtis Piperfield's Biggest Fan and Lucky Me. She lives in Monroe, Connecticut. more

VERONICA GOLDBACH has taught English as a second language at inner-city middle and elementary schools in Los Angeles, California, and in San Antonio, Texas, where she now lives. This book marks her debut. more

Drawing Words and Writing Pictures was created by comics superstars Jessica Abel and Matt Madden and based on their classes at the School of Visual Arts.  Editors of the Best American Comics series and creators of a number of groundbreaking graphic novels including 99 Ways... more

DOUG WILHELM has written several books, including The Revealers, which has been embraced by educators as a unique way to discuss school bullying. He lives in Rutland, Vermont, where Falling takes place. more

BRENDAN HALPIN was a high school English teacher for ten years. He is the author of How Ya Like Me Now. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. more

MARCELLA PIXLEY teaches eighth-grade language arts. Her poetry has been published in literary journals such as Prairie Schooner, and she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Westford, Massachusetts. more

BRENDAN HALPIN is the author of several books for adults, including Donorboy, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. more

GABRIELLE ZEVIN’s first young adult novel, Elsewhere, was an ALA Notable Book and a Quill Book Award nominee. Of her writing, The New York Times Book Review said, “Zevin’s touch is marvelously light even as she considers profundities.” She lives in New York City. more

Lisa Fiedler is the author of a number of popular young adult novels, and this is her second retelling of a Shakespearean story from the female point of view. She lives in Connecticut with her family. more

Laurie Halse Anderson (Halse rhymes with waltz) had no intention of being an author when she grew up. She had no choice, either. It began in Potsdam, New York, where she was born in 1961. It's cold up in the North Country, and people tell stories to get through the long... more

David Klass is the author of six other young adult novels, including the ALA Notable Books Wrestling With Honor and California Blue. He has also written a number of screenplays, including Kiss the Girls and Desperate Measures. He lives in New York City. more