Lauren Wolk is the author of the New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor-winning Wolf Hollow (2016), its sequel, My Own Lightning (2022), the Scott O’Dell Award-winning Beyond the Bright Sea (2017), and Echo Mountain (2020). Over the past four decades, she has also worked as a writer at the St. Paul American Indian Center, a senior editor with the educational publisher Nelson Canada, a high school English and Creative Writing teacher, Assistant Director at the Cape Cod Writers Center, and, from 2007-2022, Associate Director of the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. She has led writing workshops for students of all ages, focusing on evocative settings, character development, dialogue, and the universal languages of the senses and the emotions. Wolk is also a visual artist represented by the Larkin Gallery (Harwich Port and Provincetown, Massachusetts), an arts advocate, and an award-winning poet.