Cindy Otis is a writer and the author of the novel At the Speed of Lies, out now with Scholastic, and the critically acclaimed non-fiction book True or False, published by Macmillan.

Her other written work has appeared in publications, such as USA Today, the New York Times, CNN, and Teen Vogue. She previously served as an intelligence analyst and manager at the CIA.

Cindy was born on the West Coast and raised in the northeast. She spends more time than she would like maintaining the tenuous peace that exists between her pets.