M. T. ANDERSON is the author of the National Book Award-winning Printz Honor book The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party and the Printz Honor book The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves, as well as Feed and Thirsty. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is made of gut and bone.