Coe Booth is the author of two novels for young adults: Tyrell, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Kendra, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. The sequel to Tyrell will be released in 2011. Her short fiction has appeared in the anthologies This Is Push: New Stories from the Edge and Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? Coe received an MFA in creative writing from The New School in 2005. She lives in the Bronx, New York where she is currently working on her first novel for middle-grade readers. www.coebooth.com