Marissa Meyer is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known for The Lunar Chronicles, a series retelling classic fairy tales that began with her 2012 debut novel, Cinder, and continued through Scarlet, Cress and Winter. She grew up in Tacoma, Washington, earned a BA in creative writing and children's literature from Pacific Lutheran University, and holds an MA in publishing from Pace University. She worked as a book editor and as a freelance typesetter and proofreader before writing f...
Anna-Marie McLemore (they/them) is a Mexican-American author of young adult magical realism and fairy-tale retellings with queer and Latine characters. They were born in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in California. Their debut novel, The Weight of Feathers, was published in 2015, followed by When the Moon Was Ours, Wild Beauty, Blanca & Roja, Dark and Deepest Red and Lakelore, plus Miss Meteor with Tehlor Kay Mejia and Venom & Vow with Elliott McLemore. When the Moon Was Ours won th...
Julie Murphy is a #1 New York Times bestselling American author. A former librarian, she wrote her debut novel, Side Effects May Vary (2014), during National Novel Writing Month while working in a Texas library. She is best known for the young adult novel Dumplin' (2015), adapted into a 2018 Netflix film starring Jennifer Aniston, and its sequels Puddin' and Pumpkin. Her other work spans picture books, middle-grade fiction, and adult romance, including the Christmas Notch series co-written with...