Kekla Magoon is the author of "Camo Girl "and "The Rock and the River", winner of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award. She is a New York City-based editor, speaker, and educator. In addition to writing fiction, Kekla leads writing workshops for youth and adults, writes non-fiction titles for the education market, and is the co-editor of YA & Children's Literature for "Hunger Mountain", the arts journal of Vermont College.