MK Reed is the writer of Americus, The Cute Girl Network, Palefire, and the Eisner-nominated Science Comics: Dinosaurs. Americus was the winner of NAIBA’s 2012 Carla Cohen Free Speech Award, and was a 2011 American Booksellers for Children’s New Voices title. She writes and draws About a Bull, a web-comic adaptation of Irish mythology. Her newest book is the Science Comics: Wild Weather: Storms, Meteorology, and Climate.  MK lives in Portland, Oregon, with her very tall husband.