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I'm the author of THE ORDER OF ODD-FISH (Random House / Delacorte Press 2008), a fantastical YA comedy that was one of the Smithsonian Notable Books for Children 2008. Booklist praised ODD-FISH as "hilarious . . . readers with a finely tuned sense of the absurd are going to adore the Technicolor ride" and Time Out Chicago described it as "a work of mischievous imagination and outrageous invention." I have a degree in physics and philosophy. I've worked as a junior high school teacher and computer programmer. I trained in improvisational comedy at Second City and Improv Olympic. I'm in the Chicago art-punk band Brilliant Pebbles. I also lived for three years in Japan – ask me about my terrifying experience at Japan's rough-and-tumble Naked Man Festival. When I read from THE ORDER OF ODD-FISH at bookstores, libraries, and schools, it's usually theatrical and spastic. I live in Humboldt Park in Chicago.

I'm the author of THE ORDER OF ODD-FISH (Random House / Delacorte Press 2008), a fantastical YA comedy that was one of the Smithsonian Notable Books for Children 2008. Booklist praised ODD-FISH as "hilarious . . . readers with a finely tuned sense of the absurd are going to adore the Technicolor ride" and Time Out Chicago described it as "a work of mischievous imagination and outrageous invention... More