Melissa Kantor is the author of Confessions of 'A Not It Girl', an ALA Booklist Best Romance Novel for Youth in 2004; 'If I Have A Wicked Stepmother', 'Where's My Prince?', a YALSA Teens Top Ten Pick in 2006; 'The Breakup Bible', an ALA Best Books for Young Adults nominee in 2007; and 'Girlfriend Material'. She is a teacher in Brooklyn, New York, where she lives with her family.