Kerry Madden-Lunsford is the author of Werewolf Hamlet (Charlesbridge, 2025). Her picture book, Ernestine's Milky Way, published by Schwartz & Wade of Random House, 2019, was selected as the State Book of Alabama at the National Book Festival in Washington DC. She wrote the Smoky Mountain Trilogy for children, which includes Gentle's Holler, Louisiana's Song and Jessie's Mountain, published by Viking. Her first novel, Offsides, (William Morrow) was a New York Public Library Pick for teens. Her book, Up Close Harper Lee, made Booklist's Ten Top Biographies of 2009 for Youth. She also wrote Writing Smarts, published by American Girl, and her first picture book, Nothing Fancy About Kathryn and Charlie, was illustrated by her daughter, Lucy, and published by Mockingbird Publishers. Kerry is a regular contributor to the LA Times op-ed page and a professor of creative writing at UAB in Birmingham. Kerry and her sister and playwright, Keely Madden, collaborated on a one-hour pilot of Kerry's novel, Offsides, about two sisters growing up on the gridiron and moving all the time to many different football towns. She and her husband, Kiffen, spent their first year of marriage teaching English in China and traveled back home by way of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. One of her most formative years was as an exchange student at Manchester University in England. The mother of three adult children, Kerry has spent most of her adult life in Los Angeles, California and later, Birmingham, AL. She is currently at work on a memoir and a new children's novel called Millie G and Vulcan.

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