Ava Dellaira is the author of the young-adult novels In Search of Us and Love Letters to the Dead, which was named a Best Book of the Year by Apple, Google, BuzzFeed, and the New York Public Library, and was also featured in Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, and The New York Times Book Review. Her fiction has been translated into twenty-four languages. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. She grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago. She lives in Altadena, California, with her husband and their two young children.