Hayley Barrett is the author of the picture book Babymoon (illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal), which follows a new family as they welcome a child into the world. She is also the author of What Miss Mitchell Saw (illustrated by Diana Sudyka), a nonfiction account of Nantucket astronomer Maria Mitchell’s 1847 discovery of a telescopic comet; and An Assortment of Animals, which is a collection of animal poetry. Barrett lives in eastern Massachusetts with her husband.