Jennifer O'Toole is an award-winning and bestselling author whose Asperkids series received the ASA's Outstanding Literary Work award. The winner of the Temple Grandin Award for Global Contributions, she sits on the professional panel of the Autism Society of America and is a go-to contributor to the girl-power site Amy Poehler's Smart Girls. Diagnosed with autism in 2011, she has three children on the spectrum and currently resides in North Carolina.