Kristen-Paige Madonia is the author of the Young Adult novels INVISIBLE FAULT LINES (Simon & Schuster BFYR, May 2016) and FINGERPRINTS OF YOU (Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2012). Hailed by Judy Blume as “A remarkable young novelist,” Madonia was the 2012 D. H. Lawrence Fellow, and her short fiction has appeared in such publications as the Greensboro Review, Five Chapters, New Orleans Review, American Fiction: Best Previously Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, and the Sycamore Review. She has received awards and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Hambidge Center, the Vermont Studio Center, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hedgebrook Writers’ Retreat, Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Studios of Key West. She was the 2010 recipient of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival award and was granted the Marianne Russo Fellowship to attend the 2008 Key West Literary Seminar. She holds an MFA from California State University, Long Beach and currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia where she teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia and James Madison University. She is also a Faculty Mentor with the University of Nebraska’s low-residency MFA in Writing Program.