Ivelisse Housman isa Puerto Rican-American author and illustrator. At all seven schools sheattended throughout her childhood, she was infamously “that kid who gets introuble for reading during class, but refuses to stop.” She was diagnosed withautism at 15, which made everything make a lot more sense. When she isn'twriting, she can be found making soup or tending to her houseplants. She livesin the Blue Ridge Mountains with her high school sweetheart/archnemesis andtheir two rescue dogs.