Lis Anna-Langston was raised alongside the winding current of the Mississippi River on a steady diet of dog-eared books. She attended a creative and performing arts school from middle school until graduation and went on to study literature at Webster University. She is a Independent Press Winner, a Parents' Choice Gold Winner, a Moonbeam Children's Book Award Winner, an NYC Big Book award winner and the Dante Rossetti First Place Award winner for YA Fiction. She is the author of Tupelo Honey, Skinny Dipping in a Dirty Pond and the short story collection, Tolstoy & the Checkout Girl. Born in the South she loves writing about misfits, screw ups, outlaws and people who generally don't fit into nicely labeled boxes. She loves zany, wild rides and is a two time Pushcart nominee, a five time WorldFest winner, Telluride IndieFest winner, Helene Wurlitzer Grant recipient, New Century Writers winner, twice a finalist in the prestigious William Faulkner Competition, & Second Place Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Award.She writes Young Adult, New Adult and Middle Grade novels and loves every second of it.She draws badly, sings loudly, loves ketchup, starry skies, and stories with happy aliens. Lis Anna-Langston lives in South Carolina with some rescue chinchillas and heavily underlined copies of the Collected Works of Raymond Carver.You can learn more about her at lisannalangston.com.