Pat Lowery Collins is a poet, painter, and the author of many books for children and young adults including the Reading Rainbow selection, I Am An Artist. A sequel, I Am a Dancer, is forthcoming. Her recent young adult novel in free verse, The Fattening Hut, won the Boston Author’s Club 2004 Julia Ward Howe Award and was a BookSense Pick. Voices from Heaven, a YA novel of historical fiction, is forthcoming from Candlewick Press. A chapbook, The Quiet Woman Wakes Up Shouting, is one in a series of chapbook originals published by Folly Cove Books. She teaches in Lesley University’s MFA program in creative writing and lives and works in Gloucester, MA.