Valerie Biel is a Wisconsin native with a love for travel that inspires her novels for teens. Once upon a time, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in Journalism and Political Science. More recently, she moved back to small town Wisconsin, happily violating her teenage vow that she would never do so. When she's not writing or traveling, she wrangles her overgrown garden and reads just about everything she can get her hands on. Visit Valerie on her website at www.ValerieBiel.com, where you can find her blog posts and some really cool stuff about her books. For re...