Jennifer Roy is the award-winning author of Yellow Star, which won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award (2006), Sydney Taylor Honor Award, The William Allen White Children's Book Award (2009), a New York Public L Book, an ALA Notable Book, National Jewish Book Honor Award, and received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, VOYA and Booklist. She has written 35 educational books for children ages 5–16, including the "You Can Write" series.
Her latest book is "Trading Faces" (Simon and Schuster), a series co-authored with her twin sister, Julia DeVillers. The second book in the series is "Take Two", and the newest book is "Times Squared". Her book "MindBlind" (book), about a boy who is profoundly gifted and has Asperger Syndrome, was published in October 2010 and received a YALSA award. Ms. Roy lives in upstate New York with her husband and extraordinary son. She is also noted in World Almanac 2008.