Stacey Wallace Benefiel

Stacey Wallace Benefiel is an Oregon novelist whose teen paranormal stories combine family relationships, romance, and unusual abilities. Glimpse is her debut novel and the opening book of the Zellie Wells trilogy, followed by Glimmer and Glow. Its narrator, Zellie, discovers that visions of the future complicate her feelings for Avery and connect her to secrets extending beyond an ordinary high-school relationship. Benefiel has explained that the character began with ideas involving her sister and Roswell, Oregon, while the larger trilogy grew around Zellie's changing understanding of her power. Her background includes theatre and creative writing, and she later expanded the same fictional world through related stories and companion characters. Glimpse is consequently both a coming-of-age romance and the foundation for a longer supernatural sequence. The book establishes Zellie's distinctive viewpoint, her close family ties, and the tension between seeing a possible future and deciding what to do with that knowledge.