Cathleen Daly is a writer and performance artist who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of the novel Flirt Club, and the picture book Prudence Wants a Pet, both published by Roaring Brook Press.Her second picture book with Roaring Brook Press, Emily’s Blue Period, was the runner up for the 2015-2016 Texas Bluebonnet Award, was a Junior Library Guild Selection, a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, and a Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choice (University of Wisconsin).