Beth Ann Bauman is the author of the short story collection Beautiful Girls, and the young-adult novels Rosie and Skate, selected for the New York Times Editors’ Choice list and Booklist’s Top Ten First Novels for Youth, and Jersey Angel, selected by Publishers Weekly, Boston Globe, and The Horn Book as a best summer book. Beth has received fellowships from the Jerome Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She teaches fiction writing at NYU’s School of Professional Studies and is on the faculty of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Creative Writing at Spalding University.