Golf Story: I was the sixth man for my school golf team—the last player out. We were in a big match against our hated rival. The first five matches had ended. We won two, the bad guys won two, and one match was a draw. All the players from bothRead More →
Amie Borst once had red hair and a nose piercing, graduated from Jimmy Fallon’s rival high school and sang in a garage band called Velcro Puppies. Now she drives a minivan and makes baked goods for school events. She relives her teen years through the novels she writes. Visit www.amieborst.comRead More →
Alas, this is true. When Ilsa was a kid, all she wanted was to be Captain Kirk’s girlfriend. Since then, she’s been a lot of things—child psychiatrist, forensic psychiatrist, wannabe surgeon, film scholar, former Air Force major . . . as well as the best-selling author of dozens of award-winningRead More →
Leigh Bardugo is the New York times bestselling author of the Grisha Trilogy (Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, and Ruin and Rising). She has never had a cavity and briefly blacked out after she fell off the bleachers at a high school basketball game. She was dressed as aRead More →
John David Anderson is hardly ever called John David Anderson. He is called Dave by most people who know him, John by most people who don’t, and Poppy by his daughter. His cat calls him yeowl and his mother calls him at least once a week. If he was aRead More →
As a kid I was nerdy, had braces, loved and lived and breathed Star Wars for five years, then became obsessed with Dungeons and Dragons — I painted miniatures, read Dragon magazines (sent them stories and articles they always rejected). Then I got obsessed with video games, especially Asteroids and DigDug. IRead More →
I grew up in a nice, clean, incredibly boring suburb in upstate New York. I couldn’t wait to get out and go where the action was. I moved to New York City after graduate school because it was the most exciting place I’d ever been, and people were loud andRead More →
I was born in 1978 to a couple of Jesus People hippies. An older sister was waiting for me. A younger followed. My father accidentally became a pastor (it’s a long story and I was very young) and has been one ever since. I remember attending church in a largeRead More →
Alexander Gordon Smith has always wanted to be a horror writer, ever since his gran made him watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre when he was six. The first time he tried to be an actual horror writer (aged 11) he attempted to research a haunted house and lasted seven minutes insideRead More →
Neal Shusterman is the father of four, can clap with one hand, and makes a mean guacamole. He likes to go on cruises to write, and in fact, was on a cruise while writing this bio, in between chapters of his upcoming books Challenger Deep and Edison’s Alley. He tookRead More →
Alyson Noël is the #1 New York Times best-selling, award-winning, author of 21 novels, including: The Immortals series, The Riley Bloom series, and The Soul Seekers series. With over 8 New York Times bestsellers in 2 years, and over 7 million copies in print, her books have been translated into 37 languages andRead More →
Lish McBride is the author of funny and creepy Young Adult books such as Hold Me Closer, Necromancer; Necromancing the Stone; Firebug; and Pyromantic. She spends most of her time reading about monsters, thinking about monsters, and raising two monsters. Lish prefers mini pies to cupcakes and probably watches tooRead More →
Terry Lynn Johnson writes outdoor adventures based on her own life learning experiences in the wilds of Ontario. She might have fallen through the ice a time or two, been dragged by a dogteam, blown up a woodstove, been attacked by a sloth (slowly), accidentally sprayed a crowd with muskratRead More →
Lauren Kate is the author of the Fallen novels, the Teardrop novels, and the Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove. Her works have been translated into over 30 languages. She lives in Los Angeles with her family. She has a daughter named after her favorite book and a son named after herRead More →
Ellen Hopkins was voted most likely to dance naked under the stars. She was a straight-A kid, early Feminist, pacifist, barrel racing, dog loving, rock ‘n’ roll devotee hippie, and remains many of those things today. She might even still dance naked under the stars. Learn more at http://ellenhopkins.com/ 2015 Workshop: Outside theRead More →
Kimberly Derting once wanted to be a “foxy lady trucker” but changed her mind when she took seventh grade journalism, and hasn’t looked back since. These days, she watches WAY too much TV, orders 20# boxes of Nerds gumballs off the internet, and loves to complain about the rain evenRead More →