ANNA MERIANO is the author of the middle grade Love Sugar Magic series (Walden Pond/HarperCollins), which has received starred reviews from Kirkus, School Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness, as well as the YA contemporaries This Is How We Fly (Philomel/Penguin) and It Sounds Like This (Viking/Penguin, 2022). She grew up in Houston, Texas, graduated from Rice University with a degree in English, and earned her MFA in writing for children from the New School. Anna works as a tutor and part time teacher with Writers in the Schools, a Houston nonprofit that brings creative writing instruction into public schools. In her free time, she likes to knit, study American Sign Language, and play full-contact quidditch.