Kather­ine Locke lives and writes in Philadel­phia, where she’s ruled by her feline over­lords and her addic­tion to chai lattes. She writes about that which she can­not do: bal­let time trav­el and mag­ic. When she’s not writ­ing she’s prob­a­bly tweet­ing. She not-so-secret­ly believes most sto­ries are fairy tales in dis­guise. Her Young Adult debut, The Girl with the Red Bal­loon, won a 2018 Syd­ney Tay­lor Hon­or Award from the Asso­ci­a­tion of Jew­ish Libraries and a 2018 Car­olyn W. Field Hon­or Award from the Penn­syl­va­nia Library Asso­ci­a­tion. You can find her online @bibliogato on Twit­ter and Instagram.