Madeline Gentile-Borowitz is 14 years old and a freshman at Hanover High School in New Hampshire. Besides writing, she enjoys reading, running, and spending time with friends. She also likes theater and has performed in shows at school and at Northern Stage in Vermont. Her writing has been published in Under the Madness, in two annual anthologies of the Young Writers Project, and in Cricket, where she won third place in a poetry contest. She loves being in nature and has worked for the past two summers as a mentor-in-training at Cedar Circle Farm in Vermont. She has seen every episode of Gilmore Girls at least twice.