Instructor

Maureen is the author of four novels, two board book series, and two nonfiction books. Her books include The Peculiars, Beyond The Door, The Telling Stone, Between, Before And After, Big Ideas For Little Philosophers and the forthcoming Big Ideas For Little Environmentalists. Her poetry can be found in literary journals. Her books have been selected for Young Adult Library Services Association best fiction, American Library Association best book, Bank Street Best Books, and sold in five languages. Publisher’s Weekly calls her young adult and middle grade work “evocative of The Dark is Rising and Neil Gaimen.” Maureen taught for 20 years, specializing in gifted education, and was the Christa McAuliffe Fellowship Program fellow for Washington state in 2000. She currently lives on an island near Seattle with her husband, a hive full of bees, and four chicken sisters.