Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Dirty Girls Social Club and Playing with Boys, among other novels. She is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and Pulitzer-nominated former staff writer for both the Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe. She has written and sold pilot scripts to Nickelodeon, NBC, and Lifetime Television, as well as a teen crossover feature film based on The Kindred.
Eve Bianco is a graduate of the Juilliard School’s Drama Division. In New York, she has performed in such plays as Bedroom Farce, An Artist’s Life, and The Dybbuk by Tony Kushner. She has been seen in both film and television and has been heard in many commercials and audio books. She is a proud member of The Actors Company Theatre and lives in New York City with her two children.