Young, Lani Wendt

Born and raised in Samoa, Lani went to university in the USA and New Zealand before returning home to work as a high school English teacher. She is now a full-time writer and blogger, as well as a mother of too many children. When she's not baking three different kinds of cookies and being the watergirl to her husband who is a Samoa Ironman athlete, she's planning 101 ways that she will finally start unleashing the warrior runner that's hiding somewhere deeeeep within. Award-winning, bestselling author of nine books, including the Young Adult contemporary fantasy series, TELESA.