SHARON G. FLAKE won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award for her first novel The Skin I’m In and is a two-time Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book winner. She is the author of a middle grade novel and five books for young adults, including the companion to this book: Who Am I Without Him? Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives.

Ms. Flake says, “Being a young adult author is the best, most marvelous, most incredible thing to ever happen to me in life, besides giving birth to my daughter.” Once a counselor for youth placed in foster care, she now writes full-time from her home in Pittsburgh. To learn more about her, please visit www.sharongflake.com.