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Biography:
Ann Angel considers herself fortunate to have grown up reading novels by YA greats while listening to great rock and roll and blues. Her biography, Janis Joplin, Rise Up Singing, received the 2011 American Library Association's YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award and many others, as well as being named to numerous state reading lists. Previously, she edited Such a Pretty Face (Abrams, 2007), a collection of short stories about alternative perspectives of beauty by new and known writers. This anthology was followed up with a second anthology, Things I'll Never Say: Stories about Our Secret Selves (Candlewick). has written many biographies for educational markets. Angel received her MFA at Vermont College. She teaches at Mount Mary University in Milwaukee and writes writing prompts for teachers at Fromthemixedupfiles.com. When not teaching or writing, she hangs out with her giant horse of a dog and her growing family.
(From author's biography)
Selected Works by Ann Angel:
Things I'll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves. Candlewick Press, 2015
Janis Joplin: Rise up Singing. Abrams 2010
Adopted Like Me: My Adoption Heroes. Jessica Kingsley, 2013
A Reader’s Guide to Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street. Enslow 2010
Amy Tan: Weaver of Asian-American Tales. Enslow 2009
Such A Pretty Face: Short Stories about Beauty. Abrams, 2007
She is also co-editing, along with her daughter Amanda Angel, a collection of essays called Silent Embrace: Perspectives on Birth in Adoption.
Ann Angel considers herself fortunate to have grown up reading novels by YA greats while listening to great rock and roll and blues. Her biography, Janis Joplin, Rise Up Singing, received the 2011 American Library Association's YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award and many others, as well as being named to numerous state reading lists. Previously, she edited Such a Pretty Face (Abrams, 2007), a collection of short stories about alternative perspectives of beauty by new and known writers. This anthology was followed up with a second anthology, Things I'll Never Say: Stories about Our Secret Selves (Candlewick). has written many biographies for educational markets. Angel received her MFA at Vermont College. She teaches at Mount Mary University in Milwaukee and writes writing prompts for teachers at Fromthemixedupfiles.com. When not teaching or writing, she hangs out with her giant horse of a dog and her growing family.
(From author's biography)
Selected Works by Ann Angel:
Things I'll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves. Candlewick Press, 2015
Janis Joplin: Rise up Singing. Abrams 2010
Adopted Like Me: My Adoption Heroes. Jessica Kingsley, 2013
A Reader’s Guide to Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street. Enslow 2010
Amy Tan: Weaver of Asian-American Tales. Enslow 2009
Such A Pretty Face: Short Stories about Beauty. Abrams, 2007
She is also co-editing, along with her daughter Amanda Angel, a collection of essays called Silent Embrace: Perspectives on Birth in Adoption.
