Tanya Lee Stone

Tanya Lee Stone has a passion for telling little-known or unknown true stories about people who have been missing from our histories, with themes of empowering girls and women throughout her body of work, such as Almost Astronauts and Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors?

She celebrated her 100th book with Girl Rising: Changing The World One Girl At A Time, which focuses on global education for girls. Other books include: Peace Is a Chain Reaction; Courage Has No Color; The Good, The Bad, and The Barbie; Sandy’s Circus; Elizabeth Leads the Way; The House That Jane Built; Pass Go and Collect $200; and Remembering Rosalind Franklin. Her Young Adult verse novel, A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl, is on the ALA Top 100 Banned Books of the Decade.

Stone’s numerous awards include an NAACP Image Award, Robert F. Sibert Medal, Golden Kite Award, Bank Street’s Flora Steiglitz Straus Award, Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, Jane Addams Award Honor, two YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist awards, and an Amelia Bloomer award. Other honors include Washington Post Best Books, NPR Best Books, multiple Junior Library Guild selections, NCTE Orbis Pictus Honors, a Sydney Taylor Notable, ALA Notables, ALA Quick Picks, CBC Notable Social Studies Books, Kirkus Best Books, SLJ Best Books, and many state awards.

Stone holds a PhD in Creative Writing and is an Associate Professor and Program Director at Champlain College, in Burlington, VT, where she runs the undergraduate writing program. In addition to her books, she has written short stories in multiple anthologies, and articles and reviews for publications such as Horn Book, School Library Journal, VOYA, and the New York Times.

Stone is available for school visits and public speaking.

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