Colleen Houck

Colleen Houck is a New York Times bestselling author of young adult fantasy novels. She was born in Tucson, Arizona, in 1969. She served an 18-month American Sign Language mission in Riverside, California, for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She married in 1994 and became an ASL interpreter for 17 years. After the success of her first two "Tiger's Curse" books, she quit full-time interpreting and became a full-time writer. She has lived in Arizona, Idaho, Utah, California, and North Carolina. She currently resides in Salem, Oregon, with her husband and two children.