Terry Farish is an award-winning author of picture books and young adult novels, many of them influenced by her early work with the Red Cross in Vietnam. She later earned an MA from Antioch College’s International Studies program studying in England with Carnegie Medal winner, Jan Mark. Elizabeth Atkinson’s award-winning middle grade novels include From Alice to Zen and Everyone in Between (Bank Street College’s Best Children’s Books), I, Emma Freke (starred School Library Journal review, Bank Street College’s Best Children’s Books, 2010 Gold Moonbeam Award, Honor Book Award by the Society of School Librarians International, the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award shortlist, Sunshine State Young Reader Award), The Sugar Mountain Snow Ball (2016 Gold Moonbeam Award, 2016 Maine Literary Finalist, LitPick Top Choice Award), and The Island of Beyond (2018 NYC READS 365 Book List, 2017 Maine Literary Award Finalist, National Council of Teachers of English 2017 Notable Book, New York Public Library’s 2016 Best Kids & Teen Books List).
Fly Back, Agnes was released in March 2020, winning the 2020 International Book Award for Children's Fiction, as well as a 2020 Gold Moonbeam Award