Lisa Graff, a former children's book editor, is the author of the National Book Award nominee A Tangle of Knots, as well as Lost in the Sun, and Absolutely Almost. She also writes novels for teenagers, under the pseudonym, Isla Neal. Writing her first picture book when she was eight years old, Graff continued to write as she grew up, through high school and college. Her critically acclaimed books are on the reading lists of 33 states. Lisa Graff is an adjunct professor at McDaniel College in Maryland where she teaches a course in children's literature. She believes that the best way to learn to write is to read “really good books.”

Originally recorded on 1/15/16