I eat way too much sugar, and am a (Texas) forever fan of Friday Night Lights.  I'm an insomniac.  I think 21 Jump Street is the greatest high school movie ever made.  I like to knit.  I love turtles.  I get overly excited about baseball, ramen and Burmese food.  My great-grandfather was deported for being an opium dealer, and my own life is not nearly so exciting.  I arrange my books by color.

I'm the author of CONVICTION, about a high school baseball star named Braden whose Christian talk show host father is accused of murdering a cop, releasing in May 2015 from Disney-Hyperion; and NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY, releasing in 2016. I have an MFA from San Francisco State and am represented by Adriann Ranta of Wolf Literary.  I'm a member of the NaNoWriMo Associate Board, and love talking creative writing with teens.