Devon is a writer based in New York City. She is a graduate of New York University, where she received a BA in journalism and comparative literature, with a minor in French. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was the 2013 recipient of the Anna and John Peter Zenger Award. She has worked for Country Living Magazine, written for Scholastic MATH, and once rode on a bus for 15 hours to North Carolina to report on the plight of child farmworkers.