Alexandria LaFaye, who writes under A. LaFaye, has published a baker’s dozen of books for young readers, including the Scott O’Dell Award winning novel Worth (Simon and Schuster, 2004), the picture book Walking Home to Rosie Lee (Cinco Puntos, 2011), an IRA Teachers Choice Selection, and, the novel-in-verse, Pretty Omens (Anchor & Plume, 2015). She’s also a professor of creative writing at Greenville College during the academic year and in the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Hollins University in the summer. At home, she’s the mother of five wonderful children, the wife to a handy and handsome husband, and a caretaker to a host of four legged creatures – a fuzzy cat named Spoof, two herding dogs named Scruffy and Dixie, and fast-footed horse named Tula. You can learn more about Alexandria at her personal blog, Wordy Wandering Rest Stop.