Jamie Sumner is the author of the best-selling middle grade Roll with It trilogy, Tune It Out, One Kid’s Trash, The Summer of June, Maid for It, Deep Water, Please Pay Attention, Schooled, Glory Be, and Wish You Well as well as the picture book A Fish Like Me.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications. As a former high school English teacher, she loves to reach all different readers, which is why she writes novels in prose, novels in verse, graphic novels, and picture books. No matter the format, her stories celebrate the grit and beauty in all kids with humor and heart.

She is also the mother of a son with cerebral palsy and has written extensively about parenting a child with special needs. She and her family live in Nashville, Tennessee.