Liesl Shurtliff

Liesl Shurtliff is the award-winning and bestselling author of Rump: The (Fairly) True Tale of Rumpelstiltskin and other Fairly True Tales. She grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, the fifth of eight children. Her seven siblings tortured her but she really likes them now. She loved dancing, singing, playing the piano and reading books by Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, and Roald Dahl. She also read Grimms’ Fairy Tales so often she wore through the binding. Today she lives with her husband and four children in Chicago, which is a wonderful city except that it is decidedly flat and very cold in the winter. When she writes, she often wanders back to her childhood and gathers the magic that still remains. She hopes to share that magic with children everywhere.