Kara Leigh Storti is an award-winning young adult fiction writer. Her first published book, Tripping Back Blue, won the gold medal for the Independent Publisher Book Awards in Young Adult Fiction. She graduated from the University of Southern Maine with an MFA in Creative Writing. Throughout her career, she has mentored aspiring writers, taught high school and college writing classes, and edited books for other authors. She is currently finishing up her next novel about a teen with epilepsy who travels to other dimensions through her seizures. She lives with her husband in “Witch City” Salem, Massachusetts and practices tarot card readings with her dog Osmosis.