Elaine Dimopoulos is a graduate of Yale, Columbia, and, Simmons College, where she earned an M.F.A. in Writing for Children. Currently, she teaches children's literature at Boston University andis also an instructor for Grub Street. Sheserved as the Associates of the Boston Public Library's Children's Writer-in-Residenceduring which time she wrote "Material Girls". Visit her website at www.elainedimopoulos.com.