J. Albert Mann is a disability activist and an award-winning author for young people. She has an MFA degree from Vermont College of Fine Arts in writing for children and young adults. Her works have won the Massachusetts Book Award Honor, has received a Disability Visibility grant, been named both a Bank Street Best Book and a Blue Ribbon Book by the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, and were selected for IBBY's Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities.
