Denise Vega is the award-winning author of four books for middle school and young adult readers, including her blog books: Click Here (to find out how i survived seventh grade) – a Scholastic Book Club/Fair bestselling title and a Colorado Book Award winner – and Access Denied (and other eighth grade error messages) as well as Fact of Life #31 (Colorado Book Award winner) and Rock On (Colorado Book Award finalist). Vega has taught writing classes and workshops for a variety of organizations, community education and enrichment programs, and has spoken and presented at a number of conferences. She is on the faculty at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, teaching a range of classes on children's books. She lives in Denver with her family where she writes, reads, runs, watches too much Netflix, avoids cheese and embraces French fries.