Kathleen Duey has published 72 books for kids and teens with S&S and Penguin. She speaks professionally at schools, writer's conferences, and book events worldwide.

Skin Hunger, first of the Resurrection of Magic trilogy, was widely rave-reviewed, a National Book Award Finalist, shortlisted for the Cybil, and featured in Locus. Sacred Scars, volume two, releases August 2009. Early reviews are raves.

Kathleen loved both fantasy and SF as a girl, but her writing career began at Simon and Schuster and Penguin with several historical fiction series for young readers. Now that she has come back to her first love, she realizes how much she leaned about world-building during her years of researching cultures and sociological currents for her historicals.

Kathleen appears at as many writers' and readers' events as she can fit into her writing schedule. In the past few years she has spoken in many American venues and in France, Italy, Morocco, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi.

A champion of fantasy literature in schools, Kathleen is delighted to see Skin Hunger on several prestigious best-books-for-teens lists and is excited to know that many adults are reading the trilogy as well.

Always interested in new forms, artistic experiments, and the exciting jumble of new story-delivery mechanisms, Kathleen is writing a Twitter novel that is tweeted, in progress, almost everyday, and archived here: http://russet-one-wing.blogspot.com.