Victoria Forester is the author of "The Girl Who Could Fly", a Booklist Editor s Choice and Bank Street Best Children s Book of the Year. She is also a successful screenwriter, and originally wrote "The Girl Who Could Fly" for film. She liked the story so much that she decided to expand it into her first book. Victoria grew up on a remote farm in Ontario, Canada, and graduated from the University of Toronto. She now lives in Los Angeles with her husband, daughter, and cat.