Lynn Joseph is a Trinidadian author of several books for children, including A Wave in Her Pocket, The Mermaid’s Twin Sister, An Island Christmas, Jump Up Time: A Carnival Story, and Coconut Kind of Day, and two Young Adult novels, The Color of My Words and Flowers in the Sky. She was selected as Bermuda’s 2011 Writer in Residence and is the Editor of I Wish I Could Tell You: Bermuda Anthology of Children’s Literature and Young Adult Stories. She has a Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in Writing for Children & Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and is currently at work on a YA novel set in Tobago.