Jake Burt is an author of middle grade fiction and a fifth grade teacher. His first novel, Greetings from Witness Protection!, won the Connecticut Book Award and is on fifteen state reading lists, including the Nutmeg. His second and third novels, The Right Hook of Devin Velma and The Tornado, are both Junior Library Guild selections. His fourth novel, Cleo Porter and the Body Electric, was published in October 2020. He lives in Hamden, CT, with his wife, daughter, and cat.