Wendy Wan-Long Shang is the author of The Great Wall of Lucy Wu, which was award­ed the Asian/​Pacific Amer­i­can Award for Chil­dren’s Lit­er­a­ture; The Way Home Looks Now, an Amelia Bloomer Project List selec­tion and a CCBC Choic­es List selec­tion; and This Is Just a Test, which she cowrote with Made­lyn Rosen­berg and which is a Syd­ney Tay­lor Hon­or Book. She lives with her fam­i­ly in the sub­urbs of Wash­ing­ton, DC.