Sarah Beth Durst is the author of ten fantasy novels for children, teens, and adults, including Conjured, Vessel, and Ice. Her most recent middle-grade novel, The Girl Who Could Not Dream, comes out on November 3, 2015 from HMH/Clarion Books. She was awarded the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature and has been a finalist for SFWA's Andre Norton Award three times. She is a graduate of Princeton University, where she spent four years studying English, writing about dragons, and wondering what the campus gargoyles would say if they could talk. Sarah lives in Stony Brook, New York, with her husband, her children, and her ill-mannered cat. For more information, visit her at www.sarahbethdurst.com.