Featured Author Elizabeth Rusch
Elizabeth Rusch is an award winning author who writes propulsive stories both true and fictional on topics as diverse as democracy and dog heroes, climate change and color, equal pay and asteroids. Her writings on vital, high-interest topics pose essential questions and celebrate human ingenuity and the power of collective action.
A skilled and enthusiastic generalist, Rusch writes both fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. She is the award-winning author of more than 25 books, which have received multiple starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Horn Book, Booklist, School Library Journal, and the BCCB, among others. Her work has won the Golden Kite Award, the Subaru Prize for science writing, the Cook Prize, the Green Earth Award, the Oregon Book Award, and the Oregon Spirit Award 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. 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, among many others. Her most recent publication, "All About Patterns," is published by Charlesbridge, April 2025. She speaks and holds workshops at schools, colleges, libraries and many other settings around the country and the world. Visit Elizabeth's site: https://authorsunbound.com/elizabeth-rusch/ |
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