Ann K. Shepherd graduated from Biola University with a degree in Psychology. Currently, she lives next door to Mickey Mouse in Anaheim, California, where she can usually be found seated in front of her computer with a Diet Coke or curled up with a young adult novel. She prefers werewolves to vampires, is highly imaginative yet anal, hates heights but loves to fly, and firmly believes that there can never be too much cheese in any dish. Her novel, Seeing Red, won second place in the Gotham Writers' Workshop Young Adult Novel Discovery Contest.