Stasia Ward Kehoe grew up dreaming of becoming a professional ballerina but she didn’t grow quite enough (she is 5’4”) or have sufficiently good knees (they are peppered with surgery scars). Instead, she went Georgetown University, then worked at at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and Random House Publishing in New York, City. After receiving her MA in Performance Studies from New York University, she married a dude who looks just like Clark Kent (the hot geek who turns into Superman), had four sons, and moved to the Pacific Northwest. She then started writing with a vengeance, first nonfiction for kids, then her first young adult novel, AUDITION, in 2011. THE SOUND OF LETTING GO, her second novel, was a Junior Library Guild selection. After a four-year stint at a tech start-up, she's back at work writing YA so, as you read this bio, she's likely got her fingers glued to a keyboard. Stasia enjoys artichokes, football, parentheticals (obviously) and turning on her car to an explosion of pop music because the last person to drive it was one of her teenagers--especially if the song is about heartache and healing and has a good dance beat.
