Rex Ogle is an award-winning author who has worked for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Scholastic, and Little Brown. His award-winning trilogy of memoirs includes Free Lunch, winner of the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award; Punching Bag, a New York Public Library Best Book and recipient of starred reviews from Booklist and School Library Journal; and Road Home, a Printz Award Honor Book and Stonewall Book Award Honor Book.