Stefan BachmannStefan Bachmann was born in Colorado and spent most of his childhood in Switzerland, where he graduated from Zurich University of the Arts with degrees in music composition and theory. He is the author of The Peculiar, his debut, which as published to international acclaim when he was nineteen years old. His other books include The Whatnot, A Drop of Night, Cinders and Sparrows and Release the Wolves. He is the coauthor (with April Genevieve Tucholke) of The Secret Life of Hidden Places. He lives in Zurich, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany.