Gwenda Bond is the author of eleven novels, two serials, and a graphic novel, among them the Lois Lane and Cirque American young adult series and, with Christopher Rowe, the Supernormal Sleuthing Service series for middle-grade readers. Netflix and Penguin Books recently selected her to pen the first Stranger Things novel for adults. For the Carnegie Center, Gwenda mentors fiction across all genres (except historical), with specialties in young adult, mystery, and fantasy.