Sheri Sinykin has pub­lished twen­ty books for young read­ers since 1990, includ­ing eight in a young read­er series called The Mag­ic Attic Club, Giv­ing Up The Ghost, a YA nov­el set on a haunt­ed plan­ta­tion after Hur­ri­cane Kat­ri­na, and Zayde Comes To Live (illus­trat­ed by Kristi­na Swarn­er) which has won sev­er­al awards.

She grew up in Sacra­men­to, CA and has worked var­i­ous­ly as an intern at Cos­mopoli­tan, a dai­ly news­pa­per reporter, a hos­pi­tal PR direc­tor, and the assis­tant exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Madi­son (WI) Con­ven­tion and Vis­i­tors Bureau. She received an MFA in Writ­ing for Chil­dren in 2003 from Ver­mont Col­lege, for which she wrote a crit­i­cal the­sis explor­ing children’s lit­er­a­ture with themes of loss, bereave­ment, and She has a BA in Com­mu­ni­ca­tions-Jour­nal­ism from Stan­ford University.