And the Beauty of the World Carried Me, my next picture book, forthcoming from Macmillan/Roaring Brook
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For many creative folk, imagination has never been the problem. My problem has always been focusing on one of my many ideas and taking it from start to finish.
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During online learning, some days recess is wrestling with the dogs, some days it is jumping madly on the backyard trampoline, some days it's a short session of Minecraft, but today…
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A couple of weeks ago I finished How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by novelist, essayist, story writer Alexander Chee.
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In Senegal, when someone dies, people say, "a library has burned."
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Did you know that authors generally don’t choose their own illustrators? So I was thrilled when…
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I cannot wait to share my first children's picture book, Tumbleweed, with the world next fall!
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I have 3 Ruths in my life: my grandmother (father's side), a character in a short story that lives under my bed, and my car, Ruth the Honda.
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