About Anne

Anne Ylvisaker (pronounced ILL-vi-soccer) is the author of the middle grade novel ONE ALLEY SUMMER (Marble Press, 2024), the picture book IAMASAURUS (Cameron Kids 2022), as well as many award winning books, including five middle grade novels with Candlewick Press, a board book, and nineteen books of non-fiction for young readers. In 2005 Anne was awarded the McKnight Artist Fellowship/Loft Award in Children’s Literature. She has a master’s degree in education.

Also an artist, Anne has participated in various group art shows, and in 2019 had a solo show of paintings and poems called Surprised by Delight. She is a resident artist at Open Ground Studios in Seaside, California.

Anne grew up near the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Until 2006, she spent her adult life just across the river in Saint Paul, teaching and writing. After four years in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Anne moved to Monterey, California where she lives with her husband Dan. 

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