Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld, Cherie Bennett and her husband, Jeff Gottesfeld, often write on teen themes. This novel is for Berkley; they wrote the Trash series together, while Cherie authored the best-selling Berkley series Sunset Island. Cherie writes both paperback and hardcover fiction-"Life in the Fat Land, Zink"-while her Copley News Service syndicated column, "Hey, Cherie!" appears in papers coast to coast. She is also one of America's finest young playwrights and a back-to-back winner of the Kennedy Center's "New Visions/New Voices" playwriting award. Cherie and Jeff live in Nashville and Los Angeles.