Blackstone, Eva: - Eva Blackstone has always been fascinated by storytelling. She was eleven when she won her first poetry contest and has been writing poetry, short stories, and novels ever since. Her middle grade novel Bad Mojo, Mollusc Bay Books, released 2015, also features the power of friendship, which is a common theme in her work. She has lived all over the U.S., traveled all over the world, and currently lives near the Great Lakes with her human family, and several fur babies.