Virginia Wright

Virginia Wright (born Virginia Brown March 19, 1958, Belfast, Maine) is an award-winning, American author, and illustrator of children's fantasy and adult non-fiction books. She first became a published author in 1981 when she sold her first writing--Faith, to a regional magazine in the state of Maine. Faith, The Blessing, and Rosarium poems published in an anthology--Soundings by the Poetry Fellowship of Maine. Wright received a World of Poetry Merit Award-- with Rank: Honorable Mention (1987)...See more

Virginia Wright (born Virginia Brown March 19, 1958, Belfast, Maine) is an award-winning, American author, and illustrator of children's fantasy and adult non-fiction books. She first became a published author in 1981 when she sold her first writing--Faith, to a regional magazine in the state of Maine. Faith, The Blessing, and Rosarium poems published in an anthology--Soundings by the Poetry Fellowship of Maine. Wright received a World of Poetry Merit Award-- with Rank: Honorable Mention (1987) for her poem, Faith. The poems, Picture Memories, and Life, Love, Inevitably Death are published in Our Day of Passing Anthology by Ingrid Hall, Franco Esposito, Dennis Higgins, Virginia Wright and a collaboration of 30+ other talented Co-authors around the globe. Besides poetry, Wright has written several books, her first a children's book, "The Princess and the Castle, A Fairy Tale" (2010) and two other fairy tales followed, The Prince and the Dragon and Crying Bear. Wild Animal Sounds, a book released in 2014 for toddlers, is the first book in her MY First Book collection. The Christmas Secret: Mikey's Story, out in 2012 is deemed a Christmas Classic by many. Wright is the author of an educational non-fiction, short book for all ages, Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do. Timothy the Christmas Mouse, followed by the companion book, Timothy the Christmas Mouse Coloring Book For Children, were released November 2015. As an illustrator, the cover Wright, illustrated for Steampunk Alice by Dennis Higgins won the AUTHORSdb Gold Award (2014). Wright won the AUTHORSdb Silver Award (2016) in the cover contest from Timothy the Christmas Mouse Coloring Book for children. She spent several years as a beekeeper and used that experience to write a nonfiction book, Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do, ranked #1 Amazon Best Seller in three categories (2016). Wright's latest releases in 2017 are six coloring books, Steampunk Alice Coloring Book, Practice Your Way to Perfect: Butterflies Coloring Book, Practice Your Way to Perfect: Butterflies Coloring Book 2, Practice Your Way to Perfect: Insects Coloring Book, Practice Your Way to Perfect: Halloween Coloring Book and Practice Your Way to Perfect: Birds of Maine. See less