Erin Entrada Kelly

Erin Entrada Kelly is an award-winning author of children's novels. She was awarded the Newbery Medal for Hello, Universe and a Newbery Honor for We Dream of Space . Her debut novel, Blackbird Fly , was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, a School Library Journal Best Book, an ALSC Notable Book, and an Asian/Pacific American Literature Honor Book. She is also the author o f The Land of Forgotten Girls , winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature; You Go First , a Spring 2018 Indie...See more

Erin Entrada Kelly is an award-winning author of children's novels. She was awarded the Newbery Medal for Hello, Universe and a Newbery Honor for We Dream of Space . Her debut novel, Blackbird Fly , was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, a School Library Journal Best Book, an ALSC Notable Book, and an Asian/Pacific American Literature Honor Book. She is also the author o f The Land of Forgotten Girls , winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature; You Go First , a Spring 2018 Indie Next Pick; Lalani of the Distant Sea , an Indie Next Pick; Those Kids from Fawn Creek , named to numerous best-of-the-year lists; and three acclaimed novels for younger readers, Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey , Surely Surely Marisol Rainey , and Only Only Marisol Rainey , which she also illustrated. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Philippines Free Press Literary Award for Short Fiction and the Pushcart Prize. Before becoming a children's author, she worked as a journalist and magazine editor and received numerous awards for community service journalism, feature writing, and editing from the Louisiana Press Association and the Associated Press. See less