A.S. King is an award-winning novelist, a poet, a public speaker, an educator, and a lot of other things. She is the author of Attack of the Black Rectangles, which Kirkus Reviews called “a searingly relevant opus to intellectual freedom.” Her most recent novel is It Came from the Creek, about friendship, baseball, and toxic waste--a companion novel to Me and Marvin Gardens. When she’s not hiking through the woods or making delicious food, she travels the world talking to people about literacy and the mental health of young people.