Maryrose Wood is best known as the author of The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, the acclaimed middle-grade series about a teenaged governess and her three raised-by-wolves pupils. She's published young adult novels, too, as well as 2020's Alice's Farm, which was an NCTE Charlotte Huck Recommended Book. Maryrose taught fiction writing at CUNY-Lehman College and NYU's Gallatin School, and she is proud to serve on the faculty of the Stony Brook University's Children's Literature Fellows program. She lives in Southern California.