Refe Tuma

Refe Tuma is the author of critically-acclaimed FRANCES AND THE MONSTER which Kirkus calls "A fast-paced and remarkably original tale" with "a truly shocking finale," and received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly, along with its epic sequel FRANCES AND THE WEREWOLVES OF THE BLACK FOREST, winner of the Page Turner Award and finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. Both are available in Hardcover, ebook, and audiobook from HarperCollins.

Refe is also the co-creator of Dinovember and the WHAT THE DINOSAURS DID picture book series, including WHAT THE DINOSAURS DID LAST NIGHT, named a Best Children’s Book of the Year with Honors by Bank Street College.

Since 2013, his Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated short stories and essays have appeared in all sorts of places, from wonderfully obscure literary journals to the New York Times.

He lives with his family, his dog Boris, and kittens Pablo and Nico in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. Oh, and it’s pronounced ‘reef.’