Ally Condie is a writer of young adult and middle-grade fiction. She has authored the best-selling Matched series, which spent over a year on the NYT Bestseller list. All three books in the trilogy have been best-sellers and have been translated to over 30 languages. The former high school English teacher lives with her husband, three sons and one daughter outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, where she enjoys reading, running, and listening to her husband play guitar and directs the WriteOut Foundation, a non-profit that organizes writing camps for rural teens.