Victoria Aveyard was raised in East Longmeadow, MA, a small town known for the worst traffic rotary in the continental United States. She moved to Los Angeles to earn a degree in screenwriting at the University of Southern California. She currently splits her time between the East and West Coasts. As an author and screenwriter, she uses her career as an excuse to read too many books and watch too many movies. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Red Queen series and the new Realm Breaker series. Her new book is "Fate Breaker."