Evan Griffith is the award-winning author of the middle-grade novels Manatee Summer and The Strange Wonders of Roots and several nonfiction picture books. His books have received the Green Earth Book Award and the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, been featured on several state award lists, and earned multiple starred reviews, among other honors. Evan received his MFA in Writing for Children at the Vermont College of Fine Arts where he now serves as faculty. He previously worked as an editor at Workman Publishing in New York City and he continues to take on select editorial projects. These days, he lives in Austin, Texas with a mischievous tuxedo cat and several overflowing bookshelves.
