Teri Kanefield

Teri writes biographies, novels, short stories, essays, stories for children, and general nonfiction for both children and adults. Her recent books include The Girl from the Tar Paper School, winner of the 2015 Jane Addams Book Award and the 2015 Carter G. Woodson Middle-Level Book Award. Her next biography, Alexander Hamilton: How the Vision of One Man Shaped America, will be published by Abrams in 2018. Teri's stories have appeared in publications as diverse as Education Week, Scope Magazine, The Iowa Review, The American Literary Review, and Cricket Magazine. She lives with her family in California near the beach.