Andrea Seigel (B.A. Brown University; M.F.A. Bennington College) is the author of Like The Red Panda, one of Amazon.com's Top 10 Debuts of 2004, and To Feel Stuff (Harcourt), as well as the young adult novel The Kid Table, forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2010. Nickelodeons The N network optioned Panda for a television series, for which Andrea wrote the pilot episode. She has taught both creative writing and screenwriting for UCLA Extension, Loyola Marymount University, and Chapman University. Her primary academic interests include coming-of-age narratives, first-person narrators, and the narrative mechanisms behind US Weekly."