About the Author

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Amber McBride's debut young adult novel, Me (Moth), was a finalist for the National Book Awards and won the 2022 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent, among many other accolades. Her second young adult novel, We Are All So Good at Smiling, was praised for offering "important messages, uniquely delivered" by Kirkus in a starred review. Gone Wolf marks Amber McBride's middle grade fiction debut. She is a professor of creative writing at University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.