Alisa Valdes is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of six commercial women's fiction novels, including the dirty girls social club. She has a master's in journalism from Columbia and is a Pulitzer-nominated, award-winning former staff writer for the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. Alisa has written and sold pilot scripts to Nickelodeon, NBC, and Lifetime Television as well as a teen crossover feature film based on The Kindred.