Laini Taylor is an American young adult fantasy author best known for the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy and the Strange the Dreamer duology, for which she was a Michael L. Printz Honor recipient. She is also a National Book Award finalist for Young People's Literature. Taylor grew up in California and Europe as a U.S. military child and earned an English degree from UC Berkeley. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, illustrator Jim Di Bartolo, and their daughter.
