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Dayna Lorentz is a YA author from Burlington, Vermont who grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Lorentz attended Ridgewood High School, and Williams College in Williamstown, MA. She also attended Fordham University, where she got her law degree. Also, she has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College. Before she started writing and publishing her books, she was an uprising lawyer in New York City. Writing had been her hobby, but she realized she wanted to turn it into a job. Dayna’s other hobbies include singing opera and drawing, she has many dogs and loves them all.

She has written and published four books: The Storm, The Pack, The Return, and No Safety in Numbers. The first book in her series Dogs of the Drowned City, The Storm, is about a young german shepherd and his family, who get caught in a hurricane that floods their city. They get separated, and he has to go on a desperate search to find them. In The Pack, the protagonist, Shep, has to fend off a new enemy, and protect his new friends while he waits for his family to come back. In The Return, Shep’s family returns, and the flood goes away. No Safety in Numbers, published May 29,2012,is about four young teens who find themselves on lock­down in a local mall. According to Publishers Weekly, “the book No Safety In Numbers has a cliffhanger throughout the entire book and very little of it is resolved before the end. This book also uses sympathetic characters and foreshadowing and builds a sense of claustrophobia and desperation.The characters in this book find each other while trying to escape the mall.” the book is rated for kids of 12 and up. They have to learn how to protect and fight for themselves and their safety. Lorentz’s fifth book, No Easy Way Out, has yet to be released.