William Alexander is a National Book Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of fantasy and science fiction for kids.

Additional honors include an Eleanor Cameron Award, an Earphones Award, a finalist for the International Latino Book Award, two Junior Library Guild Selections, two Minnesota Book Award finalists, and two CBC Best Children’s Book of the Year Awards.

Will is a second generation Cuban-American immigrant to the United States. He studied theater and folklore at Oberlin College, English at the University of Vermont, and creative writing at Clarion. He teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts program in Writing for Children and Young Adults.