Bill Konigsberg
 Bill Konigsberg is the award-winning American author of Out of the Pocket and Openly Straight. Out of the Pocket won the 2008 Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Children's/Young Adult category. His second novel Openly Straight was released in June 2013. It received a rave review in the New York Times and starred reviews from Booklist and the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.