About the Editor

Kendra Levin is the Vice President and Editorial Director of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, where she supervises a team of eleven editors and edits award-winning and bestselling authors including Tracy Deonn, Mary H.K. Choi, Julie Berry, Kiyash Monsef, and many more. Before joining Simon & Schuster in 2019, she spent fourteen years at Viking Children’s Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, where she edited a wide range of children’s literature. Her books have received awards such as the Printz Honor, the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award, Morris Award finalist, the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal, and New York Times/NYPL Best Illustrated, among others. A contributor to Psychology Today, Kendra has been working with writers as a certified life coach for nearly twenty years and is the author of the self-help book The Hero Is