Ashleigh Bell Pedersen is the author of the novel THE CROCODILE BRIDE (Hub City Press), a New York Times Editors’ Choice now out in paperback. She sometimes acts in theater and paints.

Day job wise, Ashleigh coaches kids and teens in writing at Write Well Brooklyn, where she also leads a free weekly Creativity Club.

She lives in Brooklyn with her mischievous pitbull mix, Ernie—who sometimes resembles a cinnamon bun and other times, a hot dog.

Her writing is represented by Elizabeth Bewley at Sterling Lord Literistic.