Jill San­topo­lo is the inter­na­tion­al­ly best-sell­ing author of five nov­els for adults, includ­ing The Love We Found, Stars in an Ital­ian Sky, and The Light We Lost, which was a New York Times Best­seller, a Reese With­er­spoon Book Club pick, a Bel­letrist book club pick, and has been optioned for film. She is also the author of the children’s books in the Alec Flint Mys­ter­ies, Sparkle Spa, and Fol­low Your Heart series. Jill holds a BA from Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, an MFA from the Ver­mont Col­lege of Fine Arts, and a cer­tifi­cate in Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Law from NYU. She is the pub­lish­er of Philomel, an imprint of Pen­guin Young Read­ers Group, and lives in New York City with her hus­band and daughter.