Aimee Friedman was born and raised in Queens, New York, in an apartment filled with books and different languages. She wrote her first story at the age of five, and was off and running from there. Aimee wrote all through her years as a student at the Bronx High School of Science and then Vassar College. After graduating from college in 2001, she became a children's book editor, a job she still does, and loves, to this day! Aimee published her first novel, South Beach, in 2005, and is now the author of six novels for young adults, the latest being the critically acclaimed The Year My Sister Got Lucky. Aimee lives, works, and writes in Manhattan, where she also spends way too much time shoe-shopping.