HEATHER MATEUS SAPPENFIELD writes across genres and for all ages. TWILIGHT EMPIRE is the Substack world where she writes humor and stuff to help make sense of the world. When it comes to books, she has published two contemporary YA novels, The View from Who I Was and Life at the Speed of Us, the latter a Colorado Book Awards finalist. Her story collection, Lyrics for Rock Stars, was featured on Colorado Public Radio, earned a Ben Franklin Award, an Earphones Award from AudioFile magazine, and was a finalist for the Audies. Her writing has also won the Danahy Fiction Prize and the Arthur Edelstein Prize, garnered seven Pushcart Prize nominations, and was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award. Her most recent MG novel, The River Between Hearts, was a Moonbeam Awards Medalist, a Nautilus Awards Medalist, a Reader’s Choice Award Medalist, and winner of a Reading the West Award.