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Anne’s story collection for children, The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales (ages 8-12), won an Aesop Accolade from the American Folklore Society and a Delaware Diamond, awarded by the state’s students in grades 3-5. The book project began with a grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, which called for Anne to develop her own stories from traditional Appalachian tales with girls and women as heroes. She performs her stories at festivals, schools and libraries. The book is published by University of North Carolina Press. Go to BN.com for reviews and a recording of Anne reading “Molly Fiddler.” A new edition will be published in China in 2012-13. Anne’s Scholastic/Orchard picture books appear on recommended reading lists for Sesame Street Workshop, PBS Kids, Trumpet Book Club, as well as schools and libraries. Homeplace was a School Library Journal Best Book, Literary Guild selection and New York Public Library pick. We Keep A Store was an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. The Man Who Lived in a Hollow Tree was published by Atheneum/S&S in spring ‘09. Rights to What to Do About Pollution recently sold in Korea. As a member of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, she is an active campaigner against mountaintop removal. She contributed to Missing Mountains, a collection of essays, fiction and poetry by authors from the Authors Mountaintop Removal Tour. Anne holds a B.A. from St. Andrews Presbyterian College and M.A. from University of Kentucky. She teaches English at Eastern Kentucky University. Anne and Debbie met at the Appalachian Writers Workshop in Hindman, KY in 2003. |
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Editions in Czech and Hungarian |
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Dorchester ‘05 |
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Dorchester ‘04, Russian ed. ‘06 |
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Winner - Aesop Accolade, American Folklore Society and 2010 Delaware Diamond Award, grades 3-5 Rights sold in China (2011) |
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Short story writer and novelist Jeremiah Ho studied at UCLA with Aimee Bender, David Wong Louie, Paula Gunn Allen, Calvin Bedient and Reed Wilson. He holds a B.A. in English and creative writing; a story of his won the Ruth Brill Scholarship. He is an attorney and law school professor in Lawrence, KS. |
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Peter Carpenter is a former professor of philosophy and religion in the United States and Canada. He holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from McGill, and has published articles in Europe, Canada and the United States. With the encouragement of his students he began, and recently completed, a contemporary translation of a classic French novel. |
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Thrillers by Wes DeMott: |
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Sales: The Kenyon Review: Pushcart Prize nominee “Wasps” by Aurelia Wills |
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A writer of picture books, Jon Froehlich first came to the attention of the agency through a writing contest at McNally Jackson bookstore, Soho. He studied writing for children at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD, and works as an analyst with the US Department of Justice in Washington, DC. |
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Lina Elbadawi was born in Chicago to Sudanese parents and grew up in Sudan, Kenya. Her teen novel draws on her experiences at International School of Kenya in Nairobi and Oberlin College, Ohio, where she spent a semester abroad in Lebanon as an undergrad. She penned “Lines from Lebanon,” a popular column for the college paper.
Lina holds an MS in epidemiology from George Washington University and an MD from Duke University. She’s a first year resident in internal medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
"I think it’s important to travel, even if it isn't a semester abroad or an exchange program. It changes how you see the world and see yourself, it challenges your perspective, and makes you more aware of the interconnectedness of the world. In the long run I think it makes us better citizens and better people." |
