Nancy Ragno is author of WORD SAVVY: Use the Right Word Every Time, All the Time (Writer's Digest Books, 2011). She is co-author of the language arts series World of Language and its predecessors, Silver Burdett & Ginn English and Silver Burdett English. She earned her B.A. at Lebanon Valley College, her M.A. at New York University, and is a former teacher, lecturer, and textbook editor. In addition to her textbook series, she has written plays, biographies, and nonfiction for the middle grades, as well as teaching materials for numerous programs in language arts, reading, literature, speech,