Megan Whalen Turner is the popular and award-winning author of four stand-alone books based in the Queen's Thief universe. Eugenides' enormous and unforgettable story of the thief, Thick as Thieves, heralded her long-awaited return to the epic and unforgettable story of the thief. She has earned the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Young Adult Fiction, as well as a Newbery Honor and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. She was a finalist for the Andre Norton Prize and received the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Fiction. Before she began writing, she worked as a bookshop for seven years.

Instead of Three Wishes, her debut book, was a compilation of short stories. Megan Whalen Turner resides in the Shaker Heights neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. Megan can be found at www.MeganWhalenTurner.org.