“If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.”

American author and television writer

Suzanne Collins is an American author and television writer. She is best known for writing the young adult dystopian series The Hunger Games. She also wrote The Underland Chronicles, a children’s fantasy series. Her work is closely associated with fiction for younger readers, especially stories set in imagined worlds shaped by conflict, survival, and power.