Mara Purnhagen

Mara Purnhagen cannot live without a tall caramel latte, her iPod or a stack of books on her nightstand. She currently lives outside Cleveland with her family, two cats and a well-meaning ghost who likes to open the kitchen windows. Her YA novel, Past Midnight, was released in Sept. 2010. Tagged (March 2010), her first young-adult novel, was featured in Writer's Digest.