Marjetta Geerling is the author of Fancy White Trash (Viking Children's Books 2008). Her book was selected as an American Library Association's 2009 Best Books for Young Adults and for the 2009 Rainbow List. Marjetta grew up in Southern California and attended the Johnston Center for Integrated Studies at the University of Redlands. She lives in Miami Beach, FL where she teaches private writing classes and leads writing workshops for children, teens, and adults.

Josh Berk is the author of the award-winning YA novel, The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin (Knopf 2010) and a second comedy/mystery teen novel coming from Knopf in 2012. He has previously been a journalist, a poet, a playwright, and a guitarist (mostly in bands known for things other than fine guitar-playing). He is a librarian and lives in a cornfield in Allentown, Pennsylvania, with his family.

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Faran Fagan has been a teacher for the past eight years. Additionally, he’s been a journalist for the past fifteen years, including five years of experience as a freelance reporter for mlb.com. He’s pursuing a career as a novelist and spends his summers helping to direct a summer camp.

When Darla Warrior isn't in the classroom, she can be found hanging with her husband, three sons, and fellow writing buddies. She carves out time to write, to camp, to take stay-cations exploring the state of Florida and to read. Because she has moved around a great deal in her forty-something years of life, she often jokingly one-ups people in the number of homes she's lived in (40 something) and the number of states that she has called home (10). Writing for young adults seems to be the one passion that seems to stalk her, along with a near obessive compulsive disorder of getting rid of anything and everything that can't be moved without the help of large men with cavernous trucks.

Dorian Cirrone is the author of the young adult novels, Prom Kings and Drama Queens and Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You, which was named an ALA Popular Paperback and made the Amelia Bloomer List for Feminist Fiction as well as the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age list. She has also written the Lindy Blues chapter books, The Missing Silver Dollar and The Big Scoop. Her poems, shorts stories, and essays for children and adults have been published in literary journals and anthologies. Dorian holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in English and has taught writing at the university level and at many workshops and conferences. She has worked as a door-to-door survey taker, a dance teacher, a choreographer, an assistant city editor for a daily newspaper, and a college English instructor. Writing for children and teens has been her best job so far. To learn more about Dorian and her work, visit www.doriancirrone.com.

I (Phyllis Simon) am the founder and co-owner of Kidsbooks which has been part of the vibrant Vancouver book scene since 1983. Because we specialize in children’s books, all the staff at Kidsbooks choose to read the literature because we love discovering new books for our customers! Prior to being a bookseller, I was a children’s librarian for ten years. I have two grown-up sons and one husband! I learned to love literature from my mother who, even when there wasn’t a book to look at, was adept at reciting long poems from memory.

ChinLin is one of WRN?’s teen contributors. She is currently a senior in high school, where she leads the school’s newspaper—The Rampage—as Editor-In-Chief. When she is avoiding her overwhelming load of homework, she is handling her Facebook group — The Ultimate YA Reading Group. ChinLin is an aspiring novelist and is (kind of) leaning towards becoming a movie critic. She enjoys reading realistic fiction, cute love stories, humor and mystery novels.

Ana-Carolina usually goes by just Ana (it’s easier to say and remember). She’s a senior at a high school in Florida and 17 years old. Ana LOVES books and in the last school year she read over 60 just for the fun of it. This year she hopes to read even more books because she’s on the Battle of the Books team at her school and hopes to win 1st place again!

Kristina Miranda is a contributing reviewer for WRN. Kristina lives in Florida with her husband, two children, and three dogs. She loves reading classic literature and books that are meaningful, up-lifting, and thought-provoking. She is currently writing a middle-grade novel about an adopted girl and her dog.

Jodi Turchin is a high school English, Debate, and Creative Writing teacher who is also pursuing a career as a young adult novelist. She's been reading since she was three years old and has a lot of trouble putting down a book!

Mimi Campbell is a librarian and aspiring young adult author. She, along with a colleague, will be writing the Teen Summer Reading Program manual for the entire state of Florida in 2011. She loves reading (especially ghost stories) and planning cool programs around the books that she loves.

Veronica L. Hernandez, a high school student in Florida, is a professional book reviewer. An avid reader, she also writes a monthly column in a Gannett-owned family magazine and other print and online markets. Veronica hopes to be a book editor one day. She swims, fences, and shops when dragged away from her books. Pitch your new, upcoming, or new-in-paperback MG or clean-teen YA to her at HernandezAldir@gmail.com.

Rebecca San Juan is a freshman at Miami Arts Charter and a teen contributor to Whatcha’ Reading Now?.  She enjoys writing short stories, articles, and novels. She lives in Miami, Florida where she enjoys walking around Coral Gables.

Jennifer is a Teen Librarian who LOVE LOVE LOVES books. Jennifer can usually be found online – she's seriously addicted to the Internet. Jennifer works at Otis Library in Norwich, CT as Head of the YA Department. Besides reading books and chatting about books, going to bookstores and other libraries, plus meeting fabulous authors, she's pretty crafty – beading, card making, and some other odd crafts. Jennifer adores candy, pizza, and the Celtics.