Dashka Slater is the recipient of a 2004 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her novel, The Wishing Box (Chronicle, 2000), was named one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times. She is also an award-winning journalist who writes for the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Salon, Mother Jones, Sierra and many other publications, as well as the author of four children’s books: Baby Shoes (Bloomsbury, 2006); Firefighters in the Dark (Houghton Mifflin, 2006); The Sea Serpent and Me (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) and Dangerously Ever After (Dial, 2012). Dangerously Ever After is currently being made into a stop-motion film by Fantasiation Studios. Three more of Dashka’s books will be released in 2017: The Antlered Ship (Beach Lane), Escargot (FSG), and The 57 Bus (FSG). The latter is Young Adult title based on Slater’s New York Times Magazine piece about two teenagers on either side of an alleged hate crime. She attended the Community of Writers in 2005. www.dashkaslater.com