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Liza Ketchum
Liza Ketchum is the author of fifteen books for young people, including Where the Great Hawk Flies, winner of the 2006 Massachusetts Book Award for Children’s Literature, and the B...view moreLiza Ketchum is the author of fifteen books for young people, including Where the Great Hawk Flies, winner of the 2006 Massachusetts Book Award for Children’s Literature, and the Boston Authors Club/Julia Ward Howe Prize for Young Readers. Her most recent novel, Newsgirl, was nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award. Other titles focused on American history are the popular serialized adventure novel, Orphan Journey Home, and the non-fiction titles Into a New Country: Eight Remarkable Women of the West (an ALA “Best Book” for 2001), and The Gold Rush, a companion to the PBS series “The West.” Blue Coyote, the final title in her quartet of young adult novels, was nominated for a Lambda Literary award. Her books have appeared on the ALA’s “Best Book lists,” numerous state award lists, the Notable Social Studies Trade Book List, Bank Street College’s “Best Book List,” and on the NY Public Library’s “100 Titles for Reading and Sharing” and their “List for the Teenage.” Liza is on the faculty of the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Hamline University.Settings and travel often inspire Liza Ketchum’s stories. Although she now divides her time between Massachusetts and Vermont, she spent a year in southern California, where she witnessed a canyon fire like the one that appears in her middle grade novel, Allergic to My Family.view less