Elizabeth O. Dulemba is an award-winning author, illustrator, teacher, and speaker (including a TEDx talk). She has over two-dozen books to her credit and her debut novel, A Bird on Water Street has garnered 14 literary awards and honors, including Georgia Author of the Year and a Green Earth Book Award Honor.Elizabeth holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Georgia, an MFA in Illustration from the University of Edinburgh, and is currently a PhD Researcher in Children's Literature at the University of Glasgow (Scotland). In the summers, she serves as Visiting Associate Professor at Hollins University in the MFA in Writing and Illustrating Children's Books low-residency program. Elizabeth grew up in the American south but now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with her husband, Stan