Kayla Hicks is employed as a preschool teacher, but ever since childhood, she’s had an interest in writing. In a dream, she saw a vision of a young man receiving a code that helps him save the world. She couldn’t get this idea out of her head, so she started to write down his story, which became Kale Stone: An Outliers Tale. Hicks and her husband, Kevin, live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with their two pets, Max and Melody.