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Sharlee Glenn

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Sharlee Glenn grew up on a farm in northeastern Utah with six brothers and sisters, a multitude of aunts, uncles, and cousins, and a whole menagerie of animals ranging from a sweet old milk cow named Edgar Ada to a tree-climbing pig named Geronimo. If she wasn't weeding the garden, feeding the chickens, or playing in the River Bottoms, Sharlee was probably curled up somewhere with a good book. She decided early on that she wanted to be a writer and started working on her first novel when she was eleven. She eventually earned a graduate degree from Brigham Young University and taught writing courses there for a number of years.

Along with picture books, Sharlee writes essays, short stories, and poetry. Picture book publications include Keeping Up with Roo (Putnam), winner of the Dolly Gray Children’s Literature Award, and Just What Mama Needs (Harcourt), which was featured on the Emmy-award winning PBS children’s show, Between the Lions. Her non-fiction picture book, Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America’s First Bookmobile (Abrams), won the 2020 Norman A. Sugarman Children's Biography Honor Award.

Sharlee lives in the foothills of the Wasatch mountains. Besides reading and writing, she loves hiking, yoga, listening to good music, baking cookies, and watching BBC period dramas.

Sharlee Glenn
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