Vicki Hambleton is a professional writer, TV writer/producer, museum docent, and tutor. She has worked for publications such as US magazine and Good Housekeeping. She founded the magazine Parenting Teens and created a research book for reporters, which led to research—and eventually writer and producer—positions in the Special Events division of ABC news and a position as a producer at CBS news.
Vicki currently works as a full-time tutor for high school students in addition to working as a docent at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York and continuing to write. She lives in Connecticut on a horse farm where she can often be found hiking with her Welsh corgis or riding horses.
Cathleen Greenwood is a teacher, published writer, and veteran presenter at national and local professional conferences on teaching and writing. She loves to see young writers share their writing with the world.
In addition to coauthoring her book on writing for teenagers and two books on writing for teachers, Cathy has published poems, short stories, and essays in magazines and journals such as NCTE’s English Journal and Council Chronicle, NYSEC’s English Record and NYSEC News, AIM magazine, and the Vineyard Gazette. She has won awards for teaching and writing from the New York State English Council, Channel Thirteen, English Journal, and Teen Ink, as well as the O’Rourke Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Curriculum Design for using the principles in the book Using Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.