Sasha Cohen is an unbelievably charming, gifted skater, and she is the early favorite to win the Gold Medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Italy. She placed fourth at the 2002 Games, and has since improved her skating, trained with new coaches, worked as a professional model, and taken the world by storm!
Photographer Kathy Goedeken has been photographing skaters for over nine years. She has been published in the periodicals "Sports Illustrated for Kids", "Sports Illustrated for Women", as well as several skating magazines. Her photos appear in Scholastic's 1997 "Michelle Kwan: Heart of a Champion", Simon and Schuster's 1997 "Boitano's Edge", Lerner Publications' 1998 "Michelle Kwan: Champion on Ice", Scholastic's 1998 "Michelle Kwan Scrapbook", and has photographed all of the covers for Hyperion Book's 2000 series Michelle Kwan Presents Skating Dreams.Ms. Goedeken's photographs have appeared in numerous figure skating programs. Her TV credits include "Ice Skating on E!" and "Scott Hamilton… on E!".
Amanda Maciel has worked in book publishing since graduating from Mount Holyoke College and is currently a senior editor at Scholastic. She spends her free time writing, running, or riding the subway with her young son. She lives with him, her husband, and their cat, Ruby, in Brooklyn, New York. Tease is her first novel.