Stacy McAnulty is the author of more than twenty books for children, including the middle grade novels The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl--which was an NPR Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, and received three starred reviews--and The World Ends in April. She is also the author of the picture books Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years, Beautiful, Excellent Ed (an Ezra Jack Keats New Author Honor Book), and 101 Reasons Why I'm Not Taking a Bath, just to name a few. She lives in North Carolina with three kids, three dogs, and one husband.