Cynthia Leitich Smith

 

Cynthia Leitich Smith

Cynthia Leitich Smith is The New York Times best-selling author of Eternal, Tantalize, and numerous acclaimed books and short stories for younger readers, including Rain is not My Indian Name, which won the Wordcraft Circle Award for Native writing. Cynthia is a member of faculty at the Vermont College M.F.A. program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. Her website at www.cynthialeitichsmith.com  was named one of the top 10 Writer Sites on the Internet by Writer’s Digest and an ALA Great Website for Kids. Her Cynsations blog at cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com/  was listed as among the top two read by the children’s/YA publishing community in the SCBWI “To Market” column. She looks forward to the release of a new picture book, Holler Loudly, illustrated by Barry Gott (Dutton, Nov. 2010), a YA Gothic novel, Blessed, and a YA graphic novel adaptation of Tantalize (both Candlewick, Feb. 2011).