JOANNA RUTH MEYER is the author of Beneath the Haunting Sea, which Kirkus described as “epic, musical, and tender.” She wrote her very first story at the age of seven—it starred four female “mystery-solvers” and a villain in a gorilla suit, and remains unfinished to this day.
Since then, she’s grown up (reluctantly), earned a bachelor’s of music in piano performance, taught approximately one billion piano lessons, and written nine novels, many of them during National Novel Writing Month.
Joanna hails from Mesa, Arizona, where she lives with her dear husband and son, a rascally feline, and an enormous grand piano. When she’s not writing, she’s trying to convince her students that Bach is actually awesome, or plotting her escape from the desert. She loves good music, thick books, loose-leaf tea, rainstorms, and staring out windows. One day, she aspires to own an old Victorian house with creaky wooden floors and a tower (for writing in, of course!).