Shirley Reva Vernick writes award-winning MG and YA fiction, including ALA Best Fiction pick and Sydney Taylor honor book The Blood Lie.
NASA used it as a model for its Imagine Mars program, which combined storytelling and science for K-12 students..
Shirley also helps run Storybee.com, a storytelling web service that is used as a literacy tool on five continents.
Her essays have appeared in Salon, Cosmopolitan, literary journals, and city newspapers.
Shirley Reva Vernick writes award-winning MG and YA fiction, including ALA Best Fiction pick and Sydney Taylor honor book The Blood Lie