Gender	Female
Occupation	children's book writer
Location	Champaign, IL, United States
Introduction	YA book reviewer for The News-Gazette.
Interests	reading, running, baking, gardening
Favorite movies	Il Postino, Boys on the Side, When Harry Met Sally, A Fish Called Wanda, Crooks and Liars, Whale Rider, The Secret of Roan Inish, Pan's Labyrinth
Favorite music	The Cat Empire, Ben Harper, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Dixie Chicks, M.I.A., Mariza, Mark Knopfler, Ryan Adams, The Jayhawks, Shawn Mullins, YoYo Ma.
Favorite books	Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, Arctic Dreams, Charlotte's Web, Lolita, Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel, My Side of the Mountain, The Call of the Wild, Canterbury Tales, One Hundred Years of Solitude, PrairyErth, The Collected Poems, Playboy of the Western World, Lord of the Flies, The Golden Compass, Ender's Game, Everything is Illuminated, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Lives of a Cell, The Mists of Avalon, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Time Traveler's Wife, Winnie the Pooh, In the Night Kitchen, The Road, King Dork

You can punch a hole in an apple using a straw. How do you think that makes your milkshake feel?

Healthy.