Jessica Hawke is the author of the YA paranormal Phantom Touch and an upcoming urban fantasy series. While she would love to say that she's been writing for her entire life, that simply wasn't the case. After a brilliant stint as a story-writer in third grade, she mostly kept to writing papers for school until she headed off to college. From eighteen onward, she spent too much time thinking about the book she might eventually write instead of just writing it. At twenty-six, she finally realized the book would not write itself and got down to the surprisingly difficult yet rewarding work of writing a novel.Her favorite genres to read and write are urban fantasy, dystopian, and paranormal. When she is not writing, she works as a middle school teacher, which is often stranger than fiction.