Lydia Millet is the author of seven adult novels and a collection of short stories called Love in Baby Monkeys (2009), which was a Pulitzer Prize nominee. The Fires Beneath the Sea, her first novel for middle-grade children, was named one of Kirkus' Best Children's Books of 2011, as well as a Junior Library Guild selection. Millet resides in Tucson, Arizona, with her two young children and works as an editor and writer for a nonprofit.