Lissa Price is the internationally bestselling author of the STARTERS series, published by Penguin Random House. The duology, which has been published in twenty-nine countries, was praised by Harlan Ellison and the LA Times. Set in a future Los Angeles, this YA futuristic thriller series poses the question: Would you rent out your body to the elderly so they could be young again temporarily? Dean Koontz called STARTERS “a smart, swift, inventive, altogether gripping story.” Kirkus said the sequel, ENDERS, also a bestseller, was “delightfully disturbing.”

Lissa Price’s debut novel STARTERS is an award-winning, international bestseller published in over thirty countries. Dean Koontz called this YA futuristic thriller “a smart, swift, inventive, altogether gripping story.” The LA Times said it is “Dystopian science-fiction at its best,” and “Readers who have been waiting for a worthy successor to ‘The Hunger Games’ will find it here.” STARTERS was a Barnes & Noble pick of the month and one of only four debuts on the B&N Best Teen Books of 2012. It was awarded the its Eselsohr for Best YA Book in 2012, selected by a jury of teens in Germany, and was chosen as a top ten favorite book of 2012 by both French and German readers. It won the Crimezone Award for Best YA Thriller and is one of the LAPL.

Being Asian American, Lissa supports diversity in publishing. She lives in LA and London and has lived in India, Japan, and Britain. She has traveled completely around the globe over a period of two years. She has taught workshops at SCBWI and the La Jolla Writer’s Conference, and spoken on panels at ComicCon, WonderCon, WorldCon, Wordstock, The LA Times Festival of Books, the Boston Book Festival, RT, Thrillerfest, Bindercon and more. She has given several keynote addresses including one at a high school in Canada where STARTERS was chosen as the Book of the Year and over a thousand students and teachers read it at the same time.