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Christina Collins grew up in Massachusetts and lives in Northern Ireland, where she’s always on the lookout for secret gardens and castle ruins. She is the author of two middle-grade novels published by Sourcebooks: After Zero and The Town with No Mirrors. She holds a PhD in creative writing from Queen’s University Belfast and an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University, and she's represented by Becky Bagnell of the Lindsay Literary Agency.