Dhonielle Clayton is the New York Times best-selling author of the Belles series, The Mirror: Shattered Midnight , and the coauthor of Blackout and the Tiny Pretty Things duology, now a Netflix original series.
Find her on the web talking about books, Bollywood movies, and chai..
She is a former We Need Diverse Books board member, and co-founder of CAKE Literary, a boutique book packager focused on high-concept diverse titles.
A working journalist, Sona has held editorial roles at People , TeenPeople , ABCNews.com, MSN, and most recently, the Barnes & Noble Teen Blog (RIP), and contributed to publications from the New York Times to TeenVogue .
She earned her master\'s in screenwriting from NYU and an MFA in creative writing from the New School.
Sona Charaipotra is the author of Symptoms of a Heartbreak and How Maya Got Fierce , and coauthor of the Tiny Pretty Things duology, now a Netflix original series.
You can find her on social media @brownbookworm.
Up next: The Marvellers , her middle grade fantasy debut.
She\'s an avid traveler, and always on the hunt for magic and mischief.
She is COO of the non-profit We Need Diverse Books, and president of Cake Creative, an IP story kitchen dedicated to diverse representation.
She taught secondary school for several years, and is a former elementary and middle school librarian.
She hails from the Washington, DC, suburbs on the Maryland side.
Dhonielle Clayton is the New York Times best-selling author of the Belles series, The Mirror: Shattered Midnight , and the coauthor of Blackout and the Tiny Pretty Things duology, now a Netflix original series
