Teghan Hammond and Mel Hammond are sisters who grew up punching each other whenever they saw a P.T. Cruiser, dying their hair blue together, and fabricating a fake band in which their middle brother was (allegedly) the lead singer. Writing Lucy, Uncensored was their first time co-writing. Unless you count the summer they spent scribbling […]
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Suja Sukumar loves hanging out in coffee shops and Indian restaurants, drawing inspiration from naan and malai kofta, masala chai and lassi. She is a senior staff physician at a health system in suburban Detroit, where she lives with her husband; two wonderful, beautiful kids; and an elderly cat. When Mimi Went Missing is her
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Leyla Brittan is the author of the young adult novel Ros Demir Is Not the One (Holiday House 2024). Originally from Chappaqua, New York, she received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wyoming in 2023, and she graduated from Harvard College in 2019 with an A.B. in English and a Secondary Concentration
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Lana is the New York Times bestselling author of Payback’s A Witch and the forthcoming From Bad to Cursed from Berkley Books. Writing as Lana Popovic, she is also the author of YA novels Wicked Like a Wildfire, Fierce Like a Firestorm, Blood Countess, and Poison Priestess. Lana studied psychology and literature at Yale University,
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Leslie Lutz is the author of FRACTURED TIDE (Harper Collins/Blink 2020), which was voted “Best of 2020” by Suspense Magazine in the YA category and was a Junior Library Guild pick. Her new young adult horror novel, SWEETEST DARKNESS (Holiday House) is available September 24, 2024. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in various
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Kit Frick is a MacDowell fellow and ITW Thriller Award finalist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from Syracuse University. She is the author of multiple thrillers including, for young adults, Before We Were Sorry (originally published as See All the Stars), All Eyes on Us,
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In second grade Eileen’s teacher wrote on a homework assignment “I am sure someday you will be an author” which is a tribute to the psychic abilities of elementary school teachers, as well as Eileen penchant for making things up. While she would go on to fill endless notebooks with really bad poetry, short stories,
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Naomi Kanakia is an accomplished author known for her young adult novels and literary works. She has published three YA novels, including “Enter Title Here,” “We Are Totally Normal,” and “Just Happy To Be Here”. In addition to her fiction, Kanakia is working on a nonfiction book called “What’s So Great About The Great Books”
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Katie Cicatelli-Kuc (CHICKATELLI-KOOTS) is a writer, editor, and content consultant. Katie spent over a decade working for children’s books publishers as an in-house copy editor and production editor before becoming a full-time writer. She writes books for young children and teens, and short stories and essays for adults. Born in the Midwest and raised in
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Kristin Dwyer grew up under the California sun and still prays every day for a cloudy sky. When she’s not writing books about people kissing, she and her spouse can be found encouraging their four overly opinionated misfits to get into trouble. Kristin is a part-time hair model and wants you to know she is
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