Author Bio:
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New York Times bestselling author Livia Blackburne wrote her first novel while researching the neuroscience of reading at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since then, she’s switched to full-time writing, which also involves getting into people’s heads but without the help of a three tesla MRI scanner. Her YA books include Midnight Thief (An Indies Introduce New Voices Selection), Rosemarked (A YALSA Teens Top Ten Nominee), Disney’s Feather and Flame, and Clementine and Danny Save the World (And Each Other) (A Junior Library Guild selection) as well as the picture books Dreams to Ashes (A Junior Library Guild Selection) and I Dream of Popo, which received three starred reviews and was on numerous Best of Year lists. She is Chinese American and lives in southern California with her husband and daughter.
Interviews and Features
NPR Here and Now | ‘Dreams to Ashes’ kids’ picture book explores an ugly chapter in Los Angeles history.
Mac Kids Books | Author Livia Blackburne and illustrator Julia Kuo on I Dream of Popo