About Elizabeth Rusch
Host and mentor/teacher Elizabeth Rusch is the award-winning author of more than 20 books, which have received multiple starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Horn Book, Booklist, School Library Journal, and the BCCB, among others. Rusch is also the author of more than a hundred articles in publications such as The New York Times, Smithsonian, Harper’s, Backpacker, American Craft, Mother Jones, and Portland Monthly, and others. She writes fiction and nonfiction for children and adults and even has a graphic novel and a story edit of a film to her name.
Her work has won the Golden Kite Award, the Subaru Prize, the Cook Prize, the Green Earth Award, the Oregon Book Award, and a YALSA honor, and has landed on many Notable and Best of the Year lists produced by ALA, NCTE, NSTA, Bank Street College of Education, Kirkus, SLJ, NBC News and the New York and Chicago Public Libraries, among others.
Liz has led workshops and given lectures and presentations at colleges such as Portland State University, Duke University, and University of California at Berkeley. She has also presented at conferences such as the Willamette Writers; Wordstock; Chalk It Up for 
Literacy; the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators in Portland, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Denver; and the National Service Learning Conference in Minneapolis. She is a frequent workshop host through The Attic Writers’ Workshop and Literary Arts in Portland, Oregon.
Learn more about her work at www.elizabethrusch.com.
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