Mari Mancusi is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than thirty sci-fi/fantasy books for kids, teens and adults and an Emmy award winning former TV news producer. Her series have been selected for major state reading lists as well as the Scholastic Book Fairs and have been honored by the American Library Association as “Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers." In addition to writing, Mari loves to travel, watch horror movies and play video games. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and their teenage daughter.
Mari LOVES video games.
Favorites include ELDEN RING, THE LAST OF US, the FALLOUT series, the FINAL FANTASY series, and WORLD OF WARCRAFT. Sadly, she cannot play first person shooters because they make her sick to her stomach.
Mari is a snowboarder.
While she's lives in Texas now, when she grew up in the northeast in Massachusetts. And every weekend she'd pack up the car and go to the mountains to snowboard. (She can ski, too, but much prefers snowboarding.) The Vermont mountain of Stowe was the inspiration for her book, GOLDEN GIRL.
Mari loves to cosplay.
She works all year long on elaborate costumes to wear at conventions like Comic Con and DragonCon. She especially likes "mash-up" costumes where she takes two fandoms and mashes them together into one costume.
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Mari's favorite food is...
Ice cream! And her favorite flavor ice cream is cookies and cream. She also loves pizza. Especially with pineapple on it! While somewhat controversial, she loves marshmallow peeps and candy corn, too! Her favorite candy is Kit Kats.
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FUN FACTS ABOUT MARI
Mari is a DISNEY NINJA.
In addition to writing for Disney, Mari is a Disney super nerd. She's been to Disney World in Florida, Disney Land in California, Disney Paris and Tokyo Disney. Her favorite ride is THE HAUNTED MANSION.
Mari loves to travel.
Mari has travelled all over the world to countries such as England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, Columbia, and Japan. She also loves to go on cruises.