About the Author

Karen Romano Young has dived to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in a tiny submarine, crunched through Arctic ice in an icebreaker, and visited labs, museum workshops, and research institutions across the United States to write and draw about science. She was a lead science communications fellow aboard Dr. Robert Ballard’s research ship Exploration Vessel Nautilus.

Young is also an award-winning author who has written and/or illustrated more than thirty books for young readers, and she is the creator of AntarcticLog (#AntarcticLog), a weekly comic about science exploration and the climate. Her nonfiction books include Whale Quest, Space Junk, Try This! and Try This Extreme! Her fiction work includes The Beetle and Me: A Love Story, the graphic novel Doodlebug: A Novel in Doodles, and Hundred Percent. Her next novel is The Librarian’s Child, due out in 2019.

She lives with her family in the woods of Bethel, Connecticut. Her next adventure is a stint at Palmer Station, Antarctica, as the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Grant. She has not yet traveled to space.