Kristy Acevedo is a Young Adult author and high school English teacher. A member of SCBWI,she has her M.A.T. in English from Bridgewater State University and has taught high school in Massachusetts for sixteen years. CONSIDER, her debut novel, won the 2015 PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Children’s Book Discovery Award. Her book was also a 2017 finalist for the Philip K. Dick award for science fiction. The sequel, CONTRIBUTE, comes out in July 2017.