Hey.

Here’s some stuff about me.

My books include  THE SMASH-UP (Random House, 2021), which is my first adult novel, I also wrote THE NEXT GREAT PAULIE FINK (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2019), THE THING ABOUT JELLYFISH (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2015), which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2015. I’ve also co-written memoirs for and with others. I won some awards for my books and have had the great fortune to reach people all over the world with my words.

I live in Massachusetts. I’m ridiculously forgetful. I love the first hit of coffee in the morning. I read multiple books simultaneously. I’m a total dog person; perhaps I’d be a cat person, too, if I weren’t so allergic. I’ve got two rescue pups: an old lady Australian shepherd name Mollie, and an all-American mutt named Charlie. I’ve also got some humans in my life, whom I adore. I choose kindness over niceness, truth over disinformation, and democracy over whatever the heck we’ve had.

I’ve done a number of Q&As like this one, for the National Book Foundation, and this one for talkSTEM, and this one for the Chicago Public Library. 

Want to know more? Here are some articles about me. Here are some of the questions I’ve been asked by adults. Here are the questions I’ve been asked by children.