Monica Sherwood grew up on Long Island and currently lives in Brooklyn. She is a former elementary school teacher with a master’s degree in Childhood and Special Education from Hunter College, and currently works in educational technology as a product designer for teachers and kids. Monica began dreaming up The Ice House during a particularly long, cold winter, inventing a world “where snow and ice came to represent that desperate feeling of being hopelessly stuck in one place … but where change is, eventually, inevitable.” The Ice House is her debut novel.
