Leah Williams is a Mississippi native who now lives in New York City. BOOM!, she's authored Marvel comics. Her first book, The Alchemy of Being Fourteen, was a YA Fantasy novel, and she is currently working on the sequel, The Divinity of Hitting Fifteen. Williams is represented by Greta Moran at the Beth Vesel Literary Agency in New York, and has had nonfiction articles and essays published in The Atlantic, Oprah Magazine, and Salon.