Libba Bray is the author of the New York Times bestselling Gemma Doyle Trilogy, which includes the novels A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing. She is also the author of the comedic novel, Going Bovine. Besides Geektastic, she has contributed stories to Restless Dead, Up All Night, and Vacations from Hell. Sometimes she tells people she’s won the National Book Award, but then M. T. Anderson comes by and asks for his back, ’cause he’s grabby like that.

Libba is a longtime geek and is fluent in many geek languages including, but not limited to, theater geek, showtunes geek (yes, they are different), music geek, sci-fi TV geek, bad movies geek, “Rocky Horror” geek, campy geek, Hammer Horror geek, and Valley of the Dolls geek, which deserves a category all its own. As a teenager, she saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show every weekend for nearly two years. Any photos that surface of her in a gold lamé top, heavy eyeliner, and tap shoes are absolutely fabricated, especially if the subject in question is sporting a mullet.