Rachael Allen is a neuroscientist by day and writer by night. She is the author of many YA novels, among them the DC Icons series Harley Quinn: Reckoning, Ravenous, and Redemption and A Taxonomy of Love, which was a Junior Library Guild selection and a 2018 Book All Young Georgians Should Read. Rachael is the winner of the 2019 Georgia Young Adult Author of the Year award. Her newest project, a middle-grade graphic novel to be illustrated by Miguel Dias Rivas, My Amazing Brain: Dyslexia, will be published by Magination Press in 2026. Rachael lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her family and two dire wolves.