Leila Sales

Leila Sales grew up outside of Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 2006. Now she lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works in the mostly glamorous world of children’s book publishing. Leila spends most of her time thinking about sleeping, kittens, dance parties, and stories that she wants to write.

She is most known for her Young Adult stories: ‘Past Perfect’, ‘Mostly Good Girls ‘and ‘This Song Will Save Your Life’.

Random facts about Leila:

– I type using only two fingers.
– I get colds about as often as most people do their laundry.
– My middle name is a boy’s name.
– My first car was a grey 1988 Toyota Corolla. I named it “The Heart of Gold” and painted the words “ROAD TRIP” on it in red.
– I am embarrassingly bad at recognizing people’s faces.
– Every week during high school, I posted a different quote on my locker, so now I have roughly two hundred quotes lining the walls of my room in my parents’ house.