Dashka Slater is a New York Times bestselling author and has been described a “triple threat” for her success in journalism, adult fiction, and children’s literature. The author of many books of fiction and nonfiction for children, teenagers, and adults, her work has been translated into more than fifteen languages and has won numerous awards, including the 2024 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize from the Columbia Journalism School and Harvard’s Neiman Foundation for her nonfiction narrative, Accountable, the 2023 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Award for her short story, The Jeanines of Summer, and the 2018 Wanda Gág Read Aloud Award for her picture book, Escargot. Her children’s picture books include the beloved Escargot series, The Antlered Ship, Dangerously Ever After, and Wild Blue with illustrator Laura Hughes, which was a 2024 Choices Book from the Cooperative Children’s Book Centre. Dashka lives in California. You can find her online at dashkaslater.com, on Instagram as @princessamanita, or on Substack as @dashkaslater391.
