By day, Tiffany Trent is Communications Manager for the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech. By night, she is an award-winning novelist, with eight science fiction and fantasy novels for young adults published as well as many short stories, essays, and poems. Her novel 'The Unnaturalists' (Saga/Simon & Schuster) won a Green Earth Honor Book Award in 2012 for environmental themes in young adult fiction.