Elizabeth Rusch is the author of You Call This Democracy?, a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults, and more than a dozen acclaimed children's books, including picture books, middle grade, fiction, nonfiction, and a graphic novel. In a starred review Kirkus calls her book The 21: The True Story of the Youth Who Sued the US Government Over Climate Change a "nail-biting account of a still unresolved landmark case." She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her family.
