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. Her work has won the Golden Kite Award, the Subaru Prize, the Cook Prize, the Green Earth Award, and the Oregon Book 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 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.
She has a bachelors in economics from Duke University, a masters in public policy from the University of California,
Berkeley, and has served as a Jacob K. Javits Fellow in the U.S. Senate. She visits schools across the country and
speaks widely on the topics of writing, teen activism, science heroes, and the state of our democracy.
She lives in Portland, Oregon.
