Sara Farizan’s three coming-of-age YA novels include If You Could Be Mine, named one of TIME’s Greatest 100 YA Books of All Time, an ALA Rainbow pick as one of the year’s best LGBT-themed books, and a Lambda Literary Award winner. She moved into the supernatural YA realm with Dead Flip (Algonquin) and the DC Comics universe with the MG graphic novel, My Buddy, Killer Croc. She is the daughter of Iranian immigrants and grew up in Massachusetts.