Elizabeth Rusch

Associate Fellow at the Attic Institute

Elizabeth Rusch’s first children’ book, Generation Fix, was a Smithsonian magazine Notable Children’s Book and a finalist for the International Reading Association’s Children’s Book Award and the Oregon Book Award. Will It Blow? was a Natural History magazine Best Book for Young Readers and a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. The Planet Hunter was also an Oregon Book Award finalist, while A Day with No Crayons won the OBA’s Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children’s Literature and is a finalist for the Illinois Children’s Choice award. Her nonfiction picture book biography For the Love of Music: The remarkable story of Maria Anna Mozart is due out from Random House next spring. She also has two books forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin: The Man behind the Mars Rovers and Volcano SWAT. As an award-winning freelance writer and former managing editor of Teacher magazine and contributing editor to Child, Rusch has published more than 100 articles in national magazines for children and adults. Her publishing credits include Muse, Read, American Girl, Harper’s, Mother Jones, Parenting, Smithsonian, & Backpacker, among many others. Rusch has received the Kay Snow Literary Award, a Maggie Award, & an Oregon Literary Fellowship, among other honors. Rusch has led workshops & given lectures & presentations for children & adults at schools such as Childpeace Montessori, Winterhaven, Maimonides in Portland, Oregon; colleges such as Portland State University, Duke University, & the University of California at Berkeley; & conferences such as the Willamette Writers Conference, South Coast Writers Conference, Chalk It Up for Literacy, & the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators in Portland & Denver. Watch a video of Elizabeth Rusch on Jody Seay’s show The Back Page: http://oregonstate.edu/media/cdrbcn Read an interview with Elizabeth Rusch at: http://www.embracingthechild.org/arusch.html Learn more at www.elizabethrusch.com