Rose Brock, PhD, is Associate Professor at Sam Houston State University, USA, where she teaches children's and young adult literature in the Library Science and Technology Department. She is the cofounder of the North Texas Teen Book Festival, the largest library-run book festival for young people in the country. Dr. Brock was awarded the Scholastic Library Publishing Award by the American Library Association and the Siddie Joe Johnson Award for Outstanding Service to Youth by the Texas Library Association.