She lives in Northern California with her husband and children, and teaches Creative Writing at Mills College.Paperquake, by Kathryn Reiss (Harcourt, 1999, midde grade, 272 pages) Reiss has been a Writer in Residence for the Princeton Arts Council, a recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant for Writers, and has been a featured speaker with (among others) Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, The Northern California Library Association, The International Reading Association, Fresno County Office of Education, California Reading Association, The American Library Association, and the National Council of Teachers of English. Paint by Magic, a time travel mystery, won a place on VOYA's Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers and is an International School Librarians Association Honor Book.
Pale Phoenix and Paperquake were nominated for the Mystery Writers of America's prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award for juvenile mystery fiction, and Paperquake additionally was named one of YALSA's Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults. Time Windows was selected by the American Library Association as a Best Books for Young Adults, received YALSA's "Popular Paperback for Young Adults" award and the State of Maryland's "Blackeyed Susan Young Reader Medal." Dreadful Sorry, also a YALSA Popular Paperback for Young Adults, was a featured selection of the Junior Library Guild and was named "Pick of the Crop" in The School Library Journal starred review. She has written several mystery books in the American Girl series as well as Blackthorn Winter (2006) and Murder at Heatherstone Hall (2015), murder mystery novels set in England.
She is the author of many novels of suspense for middle grade and young adult readers, often including elements of time travel and the supernatural. After college, she lived in Bonn, Germany, as a Fulbright Scholar, and during this time wrote the first draft of her first novel. in creative writing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. degrees in English and German from Duke University, and an M.F.A. Kathryn Reiss was born in Massachusetts, December 4, 1957. Kathryn Reiss (born December 4, 1957) is an American author of award-winning children's and young adult fiction. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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