This English teacher turned author began writing the Erik & Isabelle at Foresthill High series after more than a decade of working in the public school arena. After witnessing the disenfranchisement and discrimination against gay and lesbian youth, Kim Wallace felt compelled to write a four-book high school series that would embrace the lives of a typically invisible, and often misunderstood, population. The series has been picked up by a national distributor Bookazine, and has received numerous literary award nominations. Kim will be in New York at the end of May 2007 as a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction. Currently, she works as an alternative high school vice principal in addition to running her own publishing imprint.