Steve Alten is the best-selling author of the Domain Trilogy (Domain, Resurrection, Phobos) and the Meg series, (including Meg: Hell's Aquarium and MEG: Nightstalkers). A native of Philadelphia, he earned a Bachelor's degree from Penn State, a Masters from the University of Delaware, and a Doctorate from Temple University. He is the founder and director of Adopt-An-Author, a free nationwide teen reading program used in thousands of secondary school classrooms across the country to excite reluctant readers.