Wendy Mass (born April 22, 1967) is an author of young adult novels and children's books.
Her 2003 novel, A Mango-Shaped Space won the American Library Association (ALA) Schneider Family Book Award for Middle School in 2004.
Mass mainly wrote short stories throughout college, and after graduation she moved to Los Angeles, where she tried her hand at a multitude of writing businesses, including assisting a literary agent, and at a television casting company, editor of a magazine, and a script reader for a film producer.
She moved back to her New Jersey hometown and while writing, worked as a book editor, operating out of New York City and Connecticut.
[1] In 2011, she won the Black Eyed Susan Award from The Maryland Association of School Librarians for 11 Birthdays.