Abby McDonald was born and raised in Sussex, England and studied Politics and Philosophy at Oxford University. She began writing at college, becoming music editor of the student newspaper and completing her first manuscript at nineteen. After deciding that the 'real world' of nine-to-five would interrupt her busy schedule of napping and watching teen DVD box-sets, Abigail graduated to writing full-time. Since then, her work has appeared in the NME, CosmoGirl and Plan B magazines. Her website, PopText, was noted by the London Times as one of the best British music blogs, and she currently works as pop columnist and feature writer for artistDIRECT.com, musing on everything from the High School Musical branding phenomenon to feminist readings of My Humps.

Her debut YA novel, will be published by Candlewick Press and Walker Books in Spring 2009. You can find her in a cafe in Montreal with her PowerBook, a stack of new fiction releases and Entertainment Weekly (for research, of course). She is twenty-three years old.

You can contact her at abby dot mcdonald at gmail dot com