Lauren Wolk is best known for her novels, including the New York Times bestselling novel Wolf Hollow, which won a 2017 Newbery Honor, the 2016 New England Book Award, a 2017 Jane Addams Honor, the 2018 Massachusetts Book Award, and other honors. In 2017, Dutton published Beyond the Bright Sea, which won the 2018 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and was short-listed for several awards, including the New England Book Award and the Carnegie Award (U.K.). Echo Mountain (2020) was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and others. Dutton published My Own Lightning, a sequel to Wolf Hollow, in 2022.

 Her next middle grade novel, Candle Island, will be released on April 22, 2025.

Collectively, her books have won over 50 state book awards. Lauren is also the Massachusetts Reading Association’s 2024 Children’s Literature Award winner and the author of two new picture books, currently in production.Lauren is represented by Jodi Reamer at Writers House, NYC. jreamer@writershouse.com

She is also as a visual artist represented by the Larkin Gallery (Provincetown and Harwich Port, Massachusetts), and an award-winning poet.

Her publicist at Penguin Young Readers, Lizzie Goodell, can be reached at lgoodell@penguinrandomhouse.com.

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