Trudy Krisher is a traditionally published writer of novels for young adults and picture books for children. She has won the International Reading Association Award, several American Library Association Awards, a Jefferson Cup honor for Historical Fiction, among others. Her work has been featured in scholarly and professional journals and reviewed in well-known publications like Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal. Krisher's acclaimed first novel, Spite Fences - about the lunch counter strikes in the Jim Crow South - was part of a cross-cultural humanitarian exchange program in which teenagers in Sarajevo used the book to learn about reducing ethnic conflict. Novels like Kinship, Uncommon Faith, and Fallout followed, uplifting social justice themes. Krisher also wrote a prize-winning scholarly adult biography (Fanny Seward: A Life). Bark Park, a picture book from Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster, won an Ohioana book award in 2018. In 2022 Krisher published On the March: A Novel of the Women's March on Washington, the subject of an NPR interview.

You can learn more about her at www.trudykrisher.com.