Marie Rutkoski

Marie Rutkoski is an American children's writer and professor at Brooklyn College, born in 1977 in Hinsdale, Illinois. She is the author of The Winner's Trilogy, which begins with The Winner's Curse and continues with The Winner's Crime and The Winner's Kiss, along with the contemporary novel The Midnight Lie. She earned a B.A. in English at the University of Iowa and her English master's and doctorate at Harvard.