Melanie Conklin

Melanie Conklin grew up in North Carolina and worked as a product designer for ten years before moving to New York, where she began to write. Her debut middle grade novel, Counting Thyme (Penguin), is a 2016 Nerdy Book Award winner, a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the year, winner of the International Literacy Association Teacher’ Choice Award, and nominated for three state reading lists. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and sons. Her second novel for young readers, All the Missing Pieces, publishes with Disney-Hyperion in 2020. Connect with her on Twitter.