Dhonielle Clayton

Dhonielle Clayton is a New York Times best-selling author of The Belles series, the coauthor of the Tiny Pretty Things duology which debuts as a Netflix original series soon, and the author of the forthcoming MG fantasy series The Marvellers. She hails from the Washington, D.C. suburbs on the Maryland side. She taught secondary school for several years, and is a former elementary and middle school librarian. She is COO of the non-profit We Need Diverse Books, and co-founder of CAKE Literary, a creative kitchen whipping up decadent--and decidedly diverse--literary confections for middle grade, young adult, and women's fiction readers. She's an avid traveler, and always on the hunt for magic and mischief.