Laura Goode is a novelist, essayist, poet, and screenwriter living in San Francisco. Her first novel for young adults, SISTER MISCHIEF, was released by Candlewick Press in 2011, and called a “Best Book You Haven’t Read of 2011” by Vanity Fair online, as well as “a provocative, authentic coming-of-age story…full of big ideas, big heart, and big poetry” by Booklist in its starred review, and a 2012 Best of the Bay pick by the SF Bay Guardian. She is the producer of the feature film FARAH GOES BANG, which she wrote with Meera Menon. Her poems and essays have appeared in New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB, The Rumpus, The Faster Times, Boston Review, Racialicious, Feministing, The New Inquiry, IndieWire, Denver Quarterly, Dossier, Fawlt, and other publications, and she is represented by Ted Malawer of Upstart Crow Literary. Laura was raised outside Minneapolis, where she was a spelling bee kid, and received her BA and MFA from Columbia University. Follow her on Twitter @lauragoode and visit her at www.lauragoode.com.