Lisa Rowe Fraustino is the author of many award-winning books. She received the 2010 Milkweed Prize in Children’s Literature for The Hole in the Wall, which was also named a Booklist Top Ten Environmental Book for Youth. Her first children’s novel, Grass and Sky, was a Junior Library Guild selection, and Ash was named a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association. Her historical novel about the Salem Witch Trials, I Walk in Dread, is one of the most beloved titles in the popular Dear America series. Her picture book The Hickory Chair, illustrated by Benny Andrews, earned a long list of honors and is often taught in elementary schools.
When she’s not writing, Dr. Lisa is a professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State University and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in Children’s Literature at Hollins University. She is married to a code monkey and has three mischievous cats at home. Her three children are grown up now but once upon a time were her inspiration for writing WAHH!