Susan Hill Long is a former editor and has written many books for children, including the novel Whistle in the Dark, a Publishers Weekly Best Book and winner of the 2015 Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children’s Literature (Oregon Book Awards). Her new novel is The Magic Mirror: Concerning a Lonely Princess, a Foundling Girl, a Scheming King, and a Pickpocket Squirrel (Knopf Books for Young Readers, May 2016). A native New Englander, Susan moved from Manhattan to Portland twenty years ago and never looked back.