Sloane Tanen
is the author of eight books including the best-selling
Bitter With Baggage Seeks Same: The Life and Times of Some Chickens,
Going for the Bronze,
Hatched: The Pig Push From Pregnancy to Motherhood, and the children’s titles
Where is Coco Going,
Coco All Year Round,
C is for Coco,
Coco Counts, the young-adult picture book
Appetite for Detention, and the new young-adult novel,
Are You Going to Kiss Me Now?. Sloane is a painter whose work has been exhibited in a number of shows and can be found in private and corporate collections. She received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and holds graduate degrees in literary theory from NYU and in art history from Columbia University. She lives in Berkeley, Calif., with her husband and two sons.