Dashka Slater is an award-winning journalist and the author of fifteen books for children and adults. Her bestselling true crime narrative, The 57 Bus, won the Stonewall Book Award, was chosen for 20 Best Books of the Year lists, and in 2021 was named to TIME magazine’s list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. She teaches in Hamline University’s MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults program and lives in Oakland, California.
