About the Author
Diana Rodriguez Wallach is not the child of superspies, as far as she knows. But she is an avid traveler, and every scene in her books comes from a place she has lived or visited— from her senior year apartment in Boston, MA, to the hotel where she stayed in Cortona, Italy. In addition to the Anastasia Phoenix series, Diana is also the author of the award-winning Amor and Summer Secrets series; the Mirror, Mirror short-story collection; and essays in both Dear Bully: 70 Authors Tell Their Stories and Latina Authors and Their Muses. She is an advisory board member for the Philly Spells Writing Center and is a creative writing instructor for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth. She holds a B.S. in journalism from Boston University and currently lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two kids. But of course, this all could be a masterfully crafted piece of disinformation…