Full House

Pete Hautman is the author of several novels for young adults, including Rash, Invisible, and Godless, for which he won the 2004 National Book Award. Several of his books have received ALA Best Book for Young Adults citations. You can visit him at petehautman.com.

K. L. GOING is the award-winning author of multiple books for children and teens. She received a Michael Printz Honor for her teen novel, Fat Kid Rules the World, which was made into a feature film. Her beloved middle-grade novel, The Libera­tion of Gabriel King, was an IRA Notable Book for a Global Society, a CBC Children’s Choice, was nominated for eleven state awards, and is taught in classrooms around the world. Her books have been Booksense picks, Scholastic Book Club choices, Junior Library Guild selec­tions, and have been published worldwide. She currently writes and teaches Language Arts and writing to seventh and eighth graders at a Montessori school, and lives in New York with her family.

Gary Phillips is the author of the Ivan Monk mysteries, Violent Spring and Perdition USA. He has also worked as a security guard, printer, a shade tree mechanic (rebuilding a ?58 Ford Fairlane with his father), a labor union organizer, a radio talk show host, a foundation staffer, and a community activist for over 22 years. He lives in the wilds of Los Angeles with his wife Gilda Haas, and their children Miles and Chelsea.

Will Weaver is the author of The Last Hunter: An American Family Album, Sweet Land, Barns of Minnesota, A Gravestone Made of Wheat & Other Stories, Red Earth, White Earth, The Survivors, Checkered Flag Cheater, Super Stock Rookie, Saturday Night Dirt, Defect, Full Service, and many more. Weaver was educated at Minnesota State University in Saint Cloud.