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About
Author and screenwriter who worked with Jim Henson Productions. Her novels include titles like 2012's Enders and Starters. She also wrote Portrait of a Starter and Portrait of a Marshal, both short novels set in the world of Starters. She spoke on panels at the LA Times Festival of Books, ComicCon, WonderCon, WorldCon, Wordstock, and the Boston Book Festival.
Before Fame
At age eight, she started writing.
Trivia
She has traveled the world; walking with elephants in Botswana, swimming with penguins in the Galápagos, and visiting nomads in India. She taught workshops at the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and the La Jolla Writer's Conference.
Family Life
She lived in Southern California.
Associated With
Dean Koontz called her book Starters "a smart, swift, inventive, altogether gripping story."
