Steve Watkins

Steve Watkins is an award-winning author of twelve books for young readers, including Down Sand Mountain , which won the 2009 Golden Kite Award for young adult fiction. He also writes books for grown-ups, and won a Pushcart Prize for one of the stories in his collection My Chaos Theory. He is co-editor of the online ideas and features magazine Pie & Chai , a former English professor at the University of Mary Washington, a longtime yoga instructor, and father of four daughters. He and his...See more

Steve Watkins is an award-winning author of twelve books for young readers, including Down Sand Mountain , which won the 2009 Golden Kite Award for young adult fiction. He also writes books for grown-ups, and won a Pushcart Prize for one of the stories in his collection My Chaos Theory. He is co-editor of the online ideas and features magazine Pie & Chai , a former English professor at the University of Mary Washington, a longtime yoga instructor, and father of four daughters. He and his family live in Fredericksburg, VA. stevewatkinsbooks.com See less