Shannon Hitchcock is the author of the critically acclaimed Ruby Lee & Me, a nominee for the 2017–2018 Nebraska Chapter Book Golden Sower Award, and the Crystal Kite Award–winning The Ballad of Jesse Pearl, both hailed for their immediacy and cadenced voice. Shannon’s picture book biography, Overgrown Jack, was nominated for the Sue Alexander Most Promising New Work Award. Her writing has been published in Cricket, Highlights for Children, and Children’s Writer magazines. She divides her time between Tampa, Florida, and Hendersonville, North Carolina.