Shivaun Plozza is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Frankie, which was a YALSA Teens' Top Ten pick and on the ALA's Best Fiction for Young Adults list, and Tin Heart, which was nominated to the ALA's Best Fiction for Young Adults list, as well as the middle grade novel The Boy, the Wolf, and the Stars. When she's not writing, she works as an editor and manuscript assessor. She lives in Victoria, Australia, with her cat.