Jill San­topo­lo is the inter­na­tion­al­ly best­selling author of Stars in an Ital­ian Sky, Every­thing After, More Than Words and The Light We Lost, which was a Reese With­er­spoon Book Club pick and has been optioned for film. Her books have been trans­lat­ed into more than thir­ty-five lan­guages and have been named to the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Jour­nal, Apple, and Indie Bound best­seller lists. She is also the author of the Alec Flint Mys­ter­ies, the Sparkle Spa series, and the Fol­low Your Heart books. Jill is the pub­lish­er of Philomel, an imprint of Pen­guin Young Read­ers Group, where she edits many crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed, award-win­ning, and best­selling books includ­ing She Per­sist­ed by Chelsea Clin­ton and Alexan­dra Boiger, Girling Up by May­im Bia­lik, Call­ing All Minds by Tem­ple Grandin, Just Ask! Be Dif­fer­ent, Be Brave, Be You by Jus­tice Sonia Sotomay­or and Rafael Lopez, and Super­heroes Are Every­where by Vice Pres­i­dent-elect Kamala Har­ris and Mechal Roe.