Holly Black (53 page)

Libba Bray
is the author of the
New York Times
bestselling Gemma Doyle Trilogy, which includes the novels
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels,
and
The Sweet Far Thing.
She is also the author of the comedic novel,
Going Bovine
. Besides
Geektastic,
she has contributed stories to
Restless Dead, Up All Night,
and
Vacations from Hell.
Sometimes she tells people she’s won the National Book Award, but then M. T. Anderson comes by and asks for his back, ’cause he’s grabby like that.

Libba is a longtime geek and is fluent in many geek languages including, but not limited to, theater geek, showtunes geek (yes, they are different), music geek, sci-fi TV geek, bad movies geek, “Rocky Horror” geek, campy geek, Hammer Horror geek, and
Valley of the Dolls geek,
which deserves a category all its own. As a teenager, she saw
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
every weekend for nearly two years. Any photos that surface of her in a gold lamé top, heavy eyeliner, and tap shoes are absolutely fabricated, especially if the subject in question is sporting a mullet.

About the Illustrators

Hope Larson
is the author and illustrator of several graphic novels, including
Gray Horses
and
Chiggers
. Her short stories have been featured in the
New York Times
and several anthologies, notably the Flight series and Image Comics’ Tori Amos?–inspired
Comic Book Tattoo
. Larson has been nominated for awards in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and is the recipient of a 2006 Ignatz Award and a 2007 Eisner Award. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband and four cats. She used up all her geek points when she started drawing comics professionally.

Bryan Lee O’Malley
was born in London, Ontario, Canada. In high school he joined choir, chess club, the trivia team, and the computer programming club, got his first job in order to purchase a Sega Genesis, attended LAN parties, played Starcraft from dusk ’til dawn while drinking Coke and eating pizza, tried to get his friends to read comic books that he thought were really cool, and hung out with the theater and band geeks. The head of the arts department still speaks of him fondly. O’Malley went on to become an award-winning cartoonist, with a film,
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,
in development at Universal. He lives in the United States.