Susan Lynn Meyer
Publications
About Susan
Susan Lynn Meyer’s most recent middle-grade novel, A SKY FULL OF SONG (Union Square Kids, 2023), the story of Shoshana, an eleven-year-old Jewish girl and her family, refugees from Tsarist Russia, homesteading in a dugout in North Dakota, has been termed “an untold American frontier story . . . destined to be a cherished classic.” She is the award-winning author of two previous middle-grade historical novels (BLACK RADISHES and SKATING WITH THE STATUE OF LIBERTY) and four picture books. Her works have won the Jane Addams Peace Association Children’s Book Award, the New York State Charlotte Award, the Sydney Taylor Honor Award, the Julia Ward Howe Honor Award, and many others. Her books have been named an NAACP Award Nominee, chosen as Junior Library Guild and PJ Our Way Selections, included among Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year, and translated into German and Chinese. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Wellesley College and lives outside Boston. She is represented by Rena Rossner of the Deborah Harris Literary Agency.