Gabriella DeGennaro was raised in New Jersey where she learned how to stop telling lies and write fiction, instead.

What started as stories written only in flamingo pink marker turned into studying Creative Writing and Screenwriting and trying to make people, mostly kids, laugh with her words. She now works in children's book publishing as an editor and writer.

When she's not hiding garden gnomes in her Queens apartment for her boyfriend to find, she's up very late at night writing with a pack of Twizzlers by her side.