Wesley King is the author of the Edgar Award-winning OCDaniel, which Booklist praised as "complex and satisfying" in a starred review. It was also named a Bank Street Best Book of the Year and received Canada's Silver Birch Award. King's first middle grade novel, The Incredible Space Raiders from Space!, was called "a well-drafted coming-of-age story" by Publishers Weekly. King is also the author of The Vindico and its sequel, The Feros, which were both Junior Library Guild selections, and Kobe Bryant's New York Times bestselling Wizenard series. He lives in Nova Scotia.