Laura Mcneal

Laura Rhoton McNeal has a master's degree in fiction writing from Syracuse University and taught 8th, 9th, and 11th grade English in Salt Lake City. She has been married for more than 20 years to Tom McNeal, with whom she collaborated first on a picture book called The Dog Who Lost His Bob and then on four critically-acclaimed young adult novels published by Knopf. Her solo novel, Dark Water, was published in 2010 and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Tom and Laura live with their two boys in southern California.