Yrsa Sigurdardottir is an award-winning author of five children's novels who is also a leading Icelandic civil engineer directing one of the largest hydro construction projects in European unusual assignment for an Icelandic woman. When she is not working on-site (about six months of every year), she lives with her family in Reykjavik. Her second novel featuring Thora Gudmundsdottir, My Soul to Take, will be published next year. To learn more about her, please visit www.verold.is/yrsa.asp.