Amy Timberlake's newest book, ONE CAME HOME, has been called "a True Grit for the middle school set" (Bookpage), "a valentine to sisterhood and a bird that no longer exists" (The Washington Post), and "a rare gem of a novel" (The Christian Science Monitor). It's also a 2013 Junior Library Guild pick, and it's been awarded starred reviews by Kirkus, The Horn Book, School Library Journal and The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and was a 2014 ALA John Newbery Honor Book.

 

She is also the author of THAT GIRL LUCY MOON (Hyperion Books for Children). THAT GIRL LUCY MOON was chosen as a Book Sense Pick, a NYPL’s “100 Titles for Reading & Sharing,” a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of 2007, a 2007 Amelia Bloomer Book, and the winner of the Friends of American Writers Literary Award. 

 

Her previous book, THE DIRTY COWBOY (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) won SCBWI’s Golden Kite Award, a Parents Choice Gold Medal, an International Reading Association 2004 Notable Book Citation, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon, First Prize in the 2004 Marion Vannett Ridgway Awards, Finalist for the Spur Award (Western Writers of America), Finalist for Southeast Booksellers Association 2004 Book Award, and was recently adapted into a musical for children by Lifeline Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

 

She has taught writing at the Visual Arts Center in Richmond, Virginia, and at the University of Illinois at Chicago (where she also received an M.A. in English/Creative Writing). She has received a residency fellowships from Hedgebrook (2009) and from The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (2002). She won a Judy Delton Scholarship in June 2001. She has worked as a book reviewer & columnist, a children’s bookseller, a book event coordinator, and as the Public Information Officer at the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She lives with her husband in Chicago.

Amy Timberlake