Pegi Deitz Shea

Two-time winner of the Connecticut Book Award, Vernon author Pegi Deitz Shea has published more than 400 articles, stories, poems and books for readers of all ages. She specializes in multicultural and social justice fiction and nonfiction for young readers. Her most recent novel, Abe in Arms, is about a former African boy soldier suffering from PTSD. Child labor is the topic of The Carpet Boy's Gift, and Hmong refugee lives are featured in the picture book, The Whispering Cloth, and its novel...See more

Two-time winner of the Connecticut Book Award, Vernon author Pegi Deitz Shea has published more than 400 articles, stories, poems and books for readers of all ages. She specializes in multicultural and social justice fiction and nonfiction for young readers. Her most recent novel, Abe in Arms, is about a former African boy soldier suffering from PTSD. Child labor is the topic of The Carpet Boy's Gift, and Hmong refugee lives are featured in the picture book, The Whispering Cloth, and its novel sequel, Tangled Threads. New England history is featured in The Taxing Case of the Cows: A True Story About Suffrage and in Noah Webster: Weaver of Words. Shea's books have won awards from organizations including the International Reading Association, NCTE, Children's Book Council/National Council for the Social Studies, Junior Library Guild, Bank Street College, New York Public Library and other organizations. She has presented at more than 400 schools, libraries and conferences. On the Creative Writing faculty of the University of Connecticut and the Mark Twain House in Hartford, she is also on the State Teaching Artists faculty. See less