Len Vlahos

Len Vlahos is the author of five novels for young adults. "Hard Wired" (Bloomsbury, July, 2020), which Kirkus Reviews called a “A Salinger-esque criticism of the human world’s myopic cruelty” that is “Instantly memorable, compulsively readable"; "Life in a Fishbowl" (Bloomsbury 2018), published in 12 languages and 18 countries; "The Scar Boys" (Lerner Publications 2014), a finalist for the American Library Association's Morris Award for best debut teen fiction; and its sequel, "Scar Girl" (Lerner Publications 2016), and "Girl on the Ferris Wheel" (Feiwel & Friends 2021), written in collaboration with bestselling young adult author Julie Halpern.

Len dropped out of NYU film school in the 1980s to play guitar and write songs for the punk-pop band, Woofing Cookies. Since then he has earned a black belt in Taekwondo (“You can still beat me up, but I’m going to look good while you do it”), and has learned to play ice hockey (not very well). He’s spent most of his adult life working as a bookseller, or in the service of booksellers. Len and his family live in Littleton, Colorado.