Martha Elizabeth "Libba" Bray[1] (March 11, 1964) is an American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, and The Diviners.

[citation needed] Bray is married to Barry Goldblatt, a children's book agent, and the couple have a son, Josh.

[citation needed] Bray was encouraged to write a young adult novel by her husband, Barry Goldblatt, a children's book agent and Ginee Seo, an editor at Simon & Schuster.

[6] She wrote two more books to finish the trilogy she had started with A Great and Terrible Beauty: Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing.

Going Bovine was published by Delacorte in 2009 and won the annual Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association recognizing literary excellence in young adult literature.

[25] Before the Devil Breaks You[26] and the audiobook renditions of Beauty Queens[27] and The King of Crows[28] received starred reviews from Booklist.