Laurel Snyder (she/her)
“Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone has a book only they can write. It’s critical to me that kids value their thoughts, feelings and experiences–the fun ones and the tough ones too–and learn to tell their own stories. I want them to know how powerful they can be.”
Biography
Laurel Snyder is the author of numerous critically acclaimed novels for children including The Witch of Woodland, Orphan Island, and My Jasper June. Laurel is also the author of the Charlie & Mouse series for early readers, as well as numerous picture books including Endlessly Ever After, Hungry Jim, and Swan, The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova. Her books have won the Theodore Seuss Geisel Medal, the Sydney Taylor Medal, the Orbis Pictus Honor, the E.B White Readaloud Honor, the Golden Kite Honor, and have been long-listed for the National Book Award.
Laurel grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and went to college at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and she currently teaches in the MFAC program at Hamline University.
These days, Laurel lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, two boys, and several badly-behaved cats. She gardens badly, shelves books at the school library, and finds her sons to be a constant source of inspiration (When asked for a comment, the boys admitted that they find Mom to be “a bit of a nag,” but Laurel is comfortable with that.).
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