Mary E. Pearson is the International and NYT bestselling and award-winning author the Remnant Chronicles trilogy, the Dance of Thieves duology, The Jenna Fox Chronicles trilogy, and several other books for young adults. Her numerous awards and honors include the Golden Kite for fiction, ALA Best Books, NYPL Best Books, IRA Choice Books, YALSA Teens Top Ten, Arkansas and South Carolina Young Adult Book Awards, and Andre Norton Award Finalist. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages world-wide. Mary is a native Southern Californian and received her BFA from Long Beach State University and her teaching credential from San Diego State University. She writes from her home in Carlsbad—usually out in her garden—and when she's not writing, she enjoys cooking for friends and family, and traveling with her husband because people and places inspire her. As a child she loved living in fantasy worlds and now she loves writing about them. She believes in magic, because, as one of her characters once whispered to her, “What is magic, but what we don’t yet understand?” Visit Mary on Instagram @maryepearson for book news and updates.