Laini Taylor is an artist and writer living in Portland, Oregon. Her first novel, Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer (Putnam) was published in 2007, and she is feverishly at work on the second Dreamdark book, Silksinger. She has recently sold another book, Goblin Fruit, to Arthur A. Levine books, an imprint of Scholastic. Her gift product line, Laini's Ladies, which she started out making by hand and selling at the Portland Saturday Market, can now be found in thousands of stores around the country. She lives with her husband, illustrator Jim Di Bartolo, and her elderly canine step-son, Leroy, in a bright yellow house filled with books and marionettes and robots. They spend their time drinking coffee and making stuff up.