Kristina Forest is the author of the Young Adult romance novels, I Wanna Be Where YouAre, which The New York Times called, "a big hearted story about being brave enough to go for what you want," and Now That I've Found You, a Book Riot Best Book of 2020. Her next YA romance, Zyla & Kai, will publish in Summer 2022 with Kokila/Penguin Young Readers. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at The New School, and she can often be found rearranging the books on her huge bookshelf.