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, epi The Swan Riders, as well as collections of poetry (under her maiden name, Noteboom) and a memoir. Her latest novel, Simon Sort of Says (Disney Hyperion), has been longlisted for a 2023 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.