Laura C. Stevenson is the award-winning author of four novels for young adults and two for adults, as well as the author of a monograph on Elizabethan literature and society, several articles on the Golden Age of Children's Literature, and three essays on deafness. She was trained as a historian at the University of Michigan and Yale University, and she taught writing and humanities at Marlboro College from 1986 to 2013. She lives in her family's old summer house in Vermont.
