Nicola Yoon is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Instructions for Dancing, The Sun Is Also a Star; and Everything, Everything and the coauthor of Blackout, Whiteout, and Breakout. She also wrote the adult novel One of Our Kind. She is a National Book Award finalist, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book recipient, and a Coretta Scott King New Talent Award winner. Two of her novels have been made into major motion pictures. Nicola grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, novelist David Yoon, and their daughter.