Ashleigh Bell Pedersen is the author of the novel THE CROCODILE BRIDE (Hub City Press), a New York Times Editors’ Choice now out in paperback. She sometimes acts in theater and paints. Day job-wise, Ashleigh coaches kids and teens in writing at Write Well Brooklyn.

She lives in Brooklyn with her mischievous pitbull mix, Ernie—who sometimes resembles a cinnamon bun and other times, a hot dog.

Her writing is represented by Elizabeth Bewley at Sterling Lord Literistic.