Lexa received her BA in English from Vassar and became an editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books, where she was a member of the HarperTeen fanlit contest panel, a judge for the Ursula Nordstrom Prize for fiction, and launched several original new series. She then became an editor at Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin, where she worked with New York Times bestselling authors like Lauren Kate, Nancy Holder, and Brenna Yovanoff. Lexa received her MFA in poetry from the Stonecoast Program for Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine in 2010, and was the recipient of Tusculum Review’s Inaugural Poetry Prize as well as the Brick & Mortar Review First Prize in Poetry.

Lauren graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Chicago and subsequently received her MFA degree in fiction at New York University. Her first book, Before I Fall, a New York Times Bestseller, Borders' Original Voices pick, and a Barnes and Noble Teen Book Club Selection, was published by HarperTeen in March 2010 and will be translated into twenty-eight languages. Her second book, Delirium, also a New York Times bestseller, was published in February 2011 and has recently been optioned for film. Before joining Paper Lantern Lit, she worked as an Assistant Editor in a young adult division of Penguin books. She has also worked as a freelance editor on projects ranging from best-selling nonfiction etiquette guides to commercial teen novels. She loves to read, run in Prospect Park, buy shoes, and work with fabulous new authors on unstoppable book ideas. She is not, however, necessarily a fan of long walks on the beach.

Rhoda Belleza received her BA in English and Communications from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Post-graduation, she wandered up and down the West Coast, stopping in almost every city along the way. Fortunately, none of them fit quite right. She finally found a home in Brooklyn—where she lives, breathes, and eats fiction. Before becoming an assistant editor at Paper Lantern Lit, she was a copywriter, barista, shuttle driver, and writing instructor. She loves to feel the seasons change and is currently in a co-dependent relationship with her bicycle.

Beth received her BA in Journalism from SUNY Purchase, followed by an MS in Publishing from Pace University, where she was a Graduate Assistant for the Pace University Press. With backgrounds in newspaper editing and book production, she enjoys doing all the little behind-the-scenes things in life. Luckily, book editing happens to fall into that category. When she's not working on her computer, she's working on her phone or watching Law & Order with her cat. You can find her on the Paper Lantern Lit blog and Facebook, and also through her own venture, Spandexless, a website for the feature of non-superhero graphic works. She's good with you calling her a nerd.