Kimberly Ann Purvis is a twenty-one-year-old writer and illustrator from Dublin, Georgia. Her debut novel, "Hartley's Twisted Life," is a young adult book. Her first children's book, "The Cat Who Couldn't Meow," follows Pickles, a cat who can't meow, as she travels around the farm asking other animals how to meow. "There's a Possum in My Bed" is Kimberly's second children's book which follows the adventures of a little girl who discovers a possum named Fred in her bed.