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Kimberly Gabriel started writing in fourth grade when she wrote, bound, and gave away books of terrible poetry to family and teachers as holiday gifts. Today she is an English teacher, who still squanders all free minutes to write and uses it as the best scapegoat for her laundry avoidance issues. When she is not teaching or writing, Kimberly is enjoying life with her husband and her three beautiful children in the northern suburbs of Chicago. Her debut, Every Stolen Breath, is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and the winner of the International Literacy Association’s Children’s and Young Adult Book Award in Young Adult Fiction.

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If you had to pick a creative field aside from writing, what would you choose? Why?

Kimberly Gabriel I've used writing as my creative outlet for as long as I can remember. If I didn't write, however, I might be interested in photography. I'm terrible …moreI've used writing as my creative outlet for as long as I can remember. If I didn't write, however, I might be interested in photography. I'm terrible at it (thank God for filters and edit tools), but I'm also fascinated by beautiful pictures. I'd love to learn how to become better, so I could take really lovely shots myself. (less)

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Kimberly Gabriel In 2011, I was a new mom living in the city and pregnant with my second child when a series of flash mob attacks hit the Chicago streets near our home…moreIn 2011, I was a new mom living in the city and pregnant with my second child when a series of flash mob attacks hit the Chicago streets near our home. The local news became dominated by stories of these teenage mobs, involving up to twenty participants, who would emerge from a heavily populated area to descend on a single victim to mug and attack. Maybe it was the close proximity to where I lived or perhaps it was the random and sudden nature of the attacks—whatever the cause, they terrified me and stuck with me long after we moved out of the city and settled in the nearby suburbs.

Throughout the next several years, as I continued to read stories about similar occurrences throughout Chicago and other cities, my fear of them led me down the “what if” path. What if the attacks became an epidemic? What if they got bigger? What if they grew worse? What type of person would stand up against that kind of violence? From those questions emerged the Swarm, a dark and unpredictable threat, and Lia, the unlikely hero who would fight back against it. (less)

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