Carrie Mesrobian is the author of five novels. She has a B.A. in Creative Writing & Hispanic Studies and an MFA in Fiction from the Rainier Writers Workshop of Pacific Lutheran University. She has written essays and poetry for Brain, Child magazine, Calyx, the Star Tribune, and two anthologies for young adults. Her first book, Sex & Violence, was a finalist for YALSA’s William C. Morris Award and the winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Young People’s Literature in 2014. Her fourth book, Just a Girl, was a Junior Library Guild selection and her latest, The Whitsun Daughters, is also a Minnesota Book Award Finalist in 2021. She has taught writing classes for teenagers and adults at the Loft Literary Center since 2007.