Margi Preus

Margi Preus is an American children's writer. She is a 2011 Newbery Honor winner and won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Heart of a Samurai. Her books have won multiple awards, honored as ALA/ALSC Notables, landed on many "best of" lists, featured on NPR, chosen for community reads, and translated into many languages.* She earned a graduate degree from Binghamton University. She taught at The College of St. Scholastica, University of Minnesota Duluth. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota. 2Works Storm's Coming!, Illustrator David Geister, MHS Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-68134-0180-0 The Bamboo Sword, Amulet Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4197-0807-7 Enchantment Lake, University of Minnesota Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-8166-8302-4 West of the Moon, Amulet Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4197-1532-7 Shadow on The Mountain, Aumlet Books, 2012, ISBN 978-1419711596 The Legend of the Lady Slipper. Illustrator Andrea Arroyo. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 199