Kate Stol­len­wer­ck is an attor­ney turned award-win­ning author. Kate grad­u­at­ed from North­west­ern Uni­ver­si­ty and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Austin School of Law. A fifth-gen­er­a­tion Tex­an, she now lives in Flori­da with her hus­band and three chil­dren. She is the recip­i­ent of the Flori­da Book Awards Gold Medal for Young Adult Fic­tion and the Writ­ers’ League of Texas Dis­cov­ery Prize for Young Adult/​Middle Grade Fiction.