Study Break

Jake Maia Arlow is a podcast producer, writer, and bagel connoisseur. They are the author of Almost Flying, which won the Stonewall
Honor, How to Excavate a Heart, and, most recently, The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet. They studied evolutionary biology and creative
writing (not as different as you might think) at Barnard College, and now live with their girlfriend and loud cat in the Pacific Northwest.

Ananya Devarajan is the author of Kismat Connection, which was released by Inkyard Press and HarperCollins Publishers. She is a graduate of the University of California, Irvine,
where she majored in neurobiology and behavior and minored in English, and resides as a first-year medical student at the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in Middletown, New York. Like many of her characters, Ananya is a second-generation Indian American young adult. You can reach her on Twitter and Instagram at @ananyad12, and on TikTok at @ananyadevarajan.

Christina Li graduated from Stanford with degrees in economics and public policy. In her spare time, she is dreaming up characters and
stories for children and young adults. She is also the author of Clues to the Universe and Ruby Lost and Found, out from HarperCollins

Oyin’s love of storytelling led to pursuing bachelor’s and master’s degrees in creative writing and literature. When not working as an
editor or thinking about her very large TBR pile, she can be found watching Black sitcoms from
the ’90s/early 2000s or fictional crime shows.

Joelle Wellington is the author of Their Vicious Games. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where her childhood was spent wandering
the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. When she isn’t writing, she’s reading and when she’s not doing that, she’s attempting to bake bread with varying degrees of success or strengthening her encyclopedia-like pop culture knowledge. You can find her on Twitter at @joelle_welling.