Steve Burt's books have won scores of awards. His collections: Odd Lot won the Benjamin Franklin Award, Even Odder was a Bram Stoker Award finalist, and Oddest Yet won the 2004 Bram Stoker Award. A Christmas Dozen was a Foreword Awards Book of the Year finalist and audiobook finalist. His FreeKs teen detectives series of novels (FreeK Camp, FreeK Show, and FreeK Week) won 20+ awards, including the New York and New England Book Festivals Best Y.A., the Halloween Book Festival Award Best Teen, and the Florida Book Festival Grand Prize. His latest thriller, The Bookseller's Daughter, won the New York Book Festival Grand Prize. In 2021 his two new collections are New England Christma Sampler and New England Seaside, Roadside, Graveside, Darkside. Dr. Burt's His shorter works have appeared in Reader's Digest, Writer's Digest, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Family Circle, Down East, and more, and have earned him 4 Ray Bradbury prize-winning shorter pieces. He and his wife Jolyn split their writing year between Maine and Florida.
