
Her newest middle grade novel, Zenobia July, is a smart and heartfelt coming of age story about a trans girl who is also a cyber detective. She reached up and gently touched the beautiful old earrings her grandmother had given her. Lisa Bunker is the author of the critically acclaimed Felix Yz, about a boy with a hyperintelligent fourth dimensional being fused inside of him. She smiled at herself in the mirror, then smiled more at how pretty the smile was. Her geekeries include chess, piano, gender, storycraft, and language. Zenobia July took in and blew out three long breaths. She is married and has two grown children.

In November of 2018, she was elected to represent her town in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Before taking up writing full time, she had a thirty-year career in public and community radio. Lisa Bunker lives in Exeter, New Hampshire. Timely and touching, Zenobia July is, at its heart, a story about finding home. When someone anonymously posts hateful memes on her school's website, Zenobia knows she's the one with the abilities to solve the mystery, all while wrestling with the challenges of a new school, a new family, and coming to grips with presenting her true gender for the first time. People used to tell her she was a boy now she's able to live openly as the girl she always knew she was. She used to spend most of her time behind a computer screen, improving her impressive coding and hacking skills now she's coming out of her shell and discovering a community of friends at Monarch Middle School. She used to live in Arizona with her father now she's in Maine with her aunts.

The critically acclaimed author of Felix Yz crafts a bold, heartfelt story about a trans girl solving a cyber mystery and coming into her own.
