Trained as a physicist, ERIN BOW is the author of five previous children’s novels, including Stand on the Sky, Plain Kate, Sorrow’s Knot, the science fiction duology The Scorpion Rules, y The Swan Riders, as well as collections of poetry (under her maiden name, Noteboom) and a memoir. Her latest novel, Simón Dice (Disney Hyperion), has been longlisted for a 2023 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.