OF COURSE you think I was disrespectful and incredibly vain, that I deserved to be turned into a monster. You don't know the other side of the myth. Well, let me tell you ...

Rebecca Fjelland Davis lives near Good Thunder, Minnesota. Her young-adult novels include Chasing AllieCat (Flux, 2011), a Junior Library Guild Selection; and Jake Riley: Irreparably Damaged (HarperCollins, 2003), a BCCB Blue Ribbon Fiction Book; her short story Mars at Night appears in the anthology Girl Meets Boy: Because There Are Two Sides to Every Story (Chronicle, 2012), on the Kirkus Review's list of Best Teen Books of 2012. Rebecca has also written nine nonfiction books for children. She's a cyclist, a dog owner, and an instructor at South Central College (North Mankato, Minn.), where she teaches a lot of Greek mythology.