Merrie Haskell’s first book, The Princess Curse, debuted in 2011, and was a Junior Library Guild selection. Her next book, Handbook for Dragon Slayers, is forthcoming in June 2013 from HarperCollins. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Nature, Strange Horizons, and Unplugged: The Year’s Best Online Fiction. She lives in Michigan with her husband and stepdaughter.