Bodeen, S. A.

S.A. Bodeen is the author of "The Garden" and "The Compound", which earned her an ALA Quick Pick for Young Adults, a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, and a "Publishers Weekly" "Flying Start." She is also the author of several picture books, including "Elizabeti's Doll", winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award. Bodeen grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Her first friends were cows, which she named after characters in books. From there she went on to be a Peace Corps volunteer in East Africa, and has lived in seven states, as well as a remote Pacific island. She adores books and is a