Louise Hawes

Louise Hawes has published over a dozen books for middle grade readers and young adults, including a 1999 nomination for "YA Book of the Year", Rosey in the Present Tense. Winner of the New Jersey Author's Award and two Writing Fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, she is currently a faculty member of the nation's first MFA in Writing for Children Program at Vermont College. Her adult fiction has appeared in anthologies and literary journals in the U.S. and Canada.