Lauren Wolk

Lauren Wolk American author, poet and editor. Born in Baltimore, she studied English literature at Brown University graduating in 1981. Wolk won a Newbery Honor in 2017 for her novel Wolf Hollow and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction in 2018 for Beyond the Bright Sea. Lauren Wolk began her career as a writer with the Battered Women's Project of the St. Paul American Indian Center and has since worked as an editor and an English teacher. She has been the Associate Director of the Cultural Center of Cape Cod since 2007.