Amy Kathleen Ryan is the author of six young adult novels, most notably Vibes (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008) and her science fiction novels Glow, Spark, and Flame, collectively The Sky Chasers series, (St. Martins, 2011), which has been published in more than a dozen languages and was optioned for film rights by 20th Century Fox. She graduated from the New School MFA program in creative writing, and lives in Colorado with her husband and three daughters. She attended the Community of Writers in 2006. www.amykathleenryan.com