Kimberly Dana is an award-winning author, literacy specialist, and founder of Nashville's Thrills and Chills Book Club, which boasts more than four hundred members. She has been published in the National Council of Teachers of English, Edutopia, Publishers Weekly, Parenthood, and Your Teen, and her writing has earned recognition from Writer’s Digest, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Killer Nashville, Reader Views, Readers’ Favorite, the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, and various international book festivals. When she’s not writing, Kimberly enjoys traveling the country to give author presentations to children and young adults. The owner of too many books and cowboy boots, she lives in Nashville with her husband and their spoiled Maltese, Clementine.