Cecil Castellucci is an award-winning author of eleven books for young adults. She is also a YA and children's book editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. For the research of Tin Star (coming February 2014), Cecil's attended LaunchPad, a NASA funded workshop intended to teach writers of science fiction about the most up-to-date and correct space science. She is currently working on Stone in the Sky, the sequel to Tin Star.