Ryan vs. Romance: Team Awkward

Joy McCullough writes books and plays from her home in the Seattle area, where she lives with her husband and two children. She is the author of the middle grade novelsAcross the Pond,A Field Guide to Getting Lost,Not Starring Zadie Louise,Code Red, Kestrel Takes Flight, andBasil & Dahlia, as well as the middle grade series Team Awkward, and the picture booksHarriet’s Ruffled Feathers,Champ and Major: First Dogs, andThe Story of a Book. Her debut novelBlood Water Paintwas longlisted for the National Book Award and was a William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist. Visit her at JoyMcCullough.com.

Veeda Bybee is a former journalist and holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author ofLily and the Great Quake: A San Francisco Earthquake Survival Story,Li on Angel Island, andShining a Light: Celebrating 40 Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Who Changed the World. Veeda is also the coauthor of the Team Awkward middle grade series and part of theRural VoicesandCalling the Moonanthologies. She has a rescue golden retriever/cattle dog named Sophie (fromHowl’s Moving Castle) and fluffy black cat, also from an animal shelter, named Zuko (fromAvatar: The Last Airbender). Veeda lives with her family in Nevada where she reads, writes, and bakes.