Elissa Sussman is a bestselling author of books for adults and teens. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College, her MFA from Pacific University, and in a previous life managed animators and organized spreadsheets at some of the best animation studios in the world, including Nickelodeon, Disney, DreamWorks Animations, and Sony Picture Imageworks. You can find her name in the credits of The Croods, Hotel Transylvania, The Princess and the Frog, and Tangled. In addition to Drawn That Way, she is the author of the YA fairy tales Stray and Burn, and the adult novel, Funny You Should Ask. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.
