Amy Alessio is the teen coordinator for the Schaumburg Twp. Dist. Library in Illinois, where she has enjoyed the advice of her teen patrons for over 10 years. Amy has reviewed for Teenreads.com since 2000 and also writes for Crimespree magazine. She cowrote A Year of Programs for Teens (ALA Editions, 2006) and edited the 5th Edition of Excellence in Services to Young Adults (YALSA, 2008) and Missing, an anthology (Echelon Press, 2009). She has presented on teen services and literature at Bouchercon, Love Is Murder, BEA, ALA, PLA, and other acronymic conferences as well as local workshops. She has also published some mystery short stories in Missing and The Heat of the Moment (Echelon Press, 2007). Read about her way too big cookbook collection along with whatever books or video games she is engrossed with when she should be doing more writing at http://www.vintagecookbooks.blogspot.com. She, her husband, and two young sons live near Chicago.