Her notable works include Alex, Approximately, Starry Eyes, and The Anatomical Shape of a Heart (aka Night Owls).
[1] She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and worked on her master's degree at Louisiana State University.
[2][3] Due to her father's service in the United States Army, she grew up as a military brat, moving to a number of places and traveling extensively in Europe and the Far East.
Titled Night Owls internationally, foreign rights for the book were also acquired by Simon & Schuster UK, and it was translated into five languages[11][12] It won a 2015 Reviewers' Choice Award for YA Protagonist from RT Book Reviews and the 2016 RITA Award for Young Adult Romance.
[13][14] In 2017, Simon and Schuster published her second young adult book, Alex, Approximately, a teen update of You've Got Mail.