About the Author:
Holly Black is the author of the Spiderwick Chronicles, a bestselling children's fantasy series created in collaboration with artist Tony DiTerlizzi (adapted into a feature film by Paramount Pictures), and three urban fantasy novels for young adult readers:
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale, Valiant, and Ironside. She has also published short fiction and poetry in a variety of magazines and anthologies; and the first volume in a graphic novel series, The Good Neighbors, with artist Ted Naifeh. She's currently at work on a new novel, The White Cat,
inspired by a classic French fairy tale. Black lives in a Tudor Revival house in
Massachusetts with her husband, Theo, and an ever–expanding collection of books. For more information, please visit the author's website.
About the Artist:
Theo Black has done graphic design work for such companies as Hasbro, Marvel Comics, White Wolf Publishing, and the American Tarantula Society. More recently he's been concentrating on web design for authors, and on digital illustration. He holds a Master's degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York and teaches at UMass in Amherst, Massachusetts.
For more information, please visit the artist's website.
Poem copyright © 2008 by Holly Black. Art copyright © 2008 by Theo Black. This work may not be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the author and artist.
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