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Christina Collins is the author of two middle-grade novels published by Sourcebooks: After Zero and The Town with No Mirrors. She grew up in a small town in Massachusetts, devouring library books, looking for secret gardens, and using “wicked” as an adverb. Aside from a year studying abroad in Oxford, England, Christina lived in her home state until she was 25. She then decided to take a risk, quit her job in magazine editing, and move to Northern Virginia, where she'd been awarded a funded place in George Mason University's MFA program in creative writing. Upon completing her MFA, she moved to Northern Ireland on a scholarship and earned a PhD in creative writing from Queen’s University Belfast. She has lived in Belfast ever since and is represented by Becky Bagnell of the Lindsay Literary Agency.