Hope Larson is a New York Times bestselling, multi-Eisner Award--winning cartoonist and comics writer. Over a lengthy career as a middle grade author, she has created contemporary middle grade graphic novels like All Summer Long, dabbled in fantasy with Salt Magic (illustrated by Rebecca Mock), adapted Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time into a graphic novel, written Batgirl for DC Comics, and cocreated the Goldie Vance series for Boom! Comics. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her family and an orange tabby, Popcorn.