SARAH BETH DURST is the author of award-winning fantasy novels for children, teens, and adults, including The Girl Who Could Not Dream; Drink, Slay, Love; and The Queen of Blood, winner of the American Library Association’s Alex Award. Sarah has also won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature and has been a finalist for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy three times. She lives in Stony Brook, New York, with her husband, her children, and her ill-mannered cat.