Emily X.R. Pan is the New York Times bestselling author of The Astonishing Color Of After , which won the APALA Honor Award and Walter Honor Award. It was also a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, longlisted for the Carnegie Medal, and named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 Best YA Books of All Time. Her latest novel, An Arrow To The Moon , was an instant national bestseller, a Locus Award finalist, and featured on NPR's Best Books of 2022. Emily is currently on the faculty of the creative writing MFA program at The New School.

She has also taught at Harvard University, New York University, and Vermont College of Fine Arts. She belongs to Kiwi the strangely-proportioned dog and Pippin the Hognose snake.