Marti Leimbach

Marti is known for her bestsellers, Dying Young, a New York Times bestseller made into a film starring Julia Roberts, and Daniel Isn’t Talking. Her latest novel is Dragonfly Girl, is a YA action/thriller about a high school girl with a gift for science who discovers a "cure" for death and ends up embroiled in an international rivalry.

She is interested in neurodiversity and has shared the stage with young inventors at the Human Genome Project (Toronto), the National Autistic Society, and the University of Oxford.

She teaches on the Masters Programme in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford. When she's not reading or writing, you'll find her among her menagerie of animals, including a small flock of Ryeland sheep