Lois Metzger

Lois Metzger was born in Queens, New York, and has always written for young adults. Of her four novels, two take place in Belle Heights, a fictional neighborhood in Queens, loosely based on Flushing, Forest Hills, and Kew Gardens Hills. She has also written two non-fiction books about the Holocaust; her mother and many of her relatives had to escape Vienna during World War II. She has edited five anthologies of original short stories by some of the best young-adult writers in the business. She lives in Greenwich Village with her husband and son.