Stacey Lee

Stacey Lee is the *New York Times* and *Indie* bestselling author of historical and contemporary young adult fiction, including ***The Downstairs Girl***, a Reese’s Book Club YA pick, ***Luck of the Titanic***, which received five starred reviews, and her gothic mystery, ***Heiress of Nowhere***, which *Booklist* called ‘an exceptional novel.’ A native of southern California and fourth-generation Chinese American, she practiced law for several years before retiring to start her real job writing books. Her books have been published in over a dozen countries and have won the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association award, the PEN Center award for best YA, the Northern California Book Award, and the Golden Poppy Award and appeared on *Cosmopolitan*‘s Best YA Books of All Time, and *Parade Magazine*‘s Best YA, among others. She is a co-founder of the [We Need Diverse Books](https://www.diversebooks.org/) movement and writes stories for all kids (even the ones who look like adults). Stacey loves board games, has perfect pitch, and through some mutant gene, can smell musical notes through her nose. ()