Nora Raleigh Baskin

Nora Raleigh Baskin, a 2001 Publisher’s Weekly FLYING START, is the author of fifteen novels for young adults and a contributor to several short story collections. Her personal narrative essays have appeared in WRITER MAGAZINE, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and NCTE Voices From the Middle.  Her books have won several awards, including the 2010 American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award for Anything But Typical (S&S), and in 2016, an International Literacy Association Notable Books for a Global Society for Ruby on the Outside (S&S) Seven Clues to Home (Knopf 2020) and Consider the Octopus (Henry Holt 2022) are both collaborative 2-voice middle grade novel. Her most recent is for adults, a blend of memoir and fiction, and is out on submission, while she tackles her next novel.

pronouns: she/her