Kelly, Erin Entrada: - New York Times- bestselling author Erin Entrada Kelly was awarded the Newbery Medal for Hello, Universe and a Newbery Honor for We Dream of Space.
The author\'s mother was the first in her family to immigrate to the United States from the Philippines, and she now lives in Cebu..
She is also the author of The Land of Forgotten Girls, winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
You Go First, a Spring 2018 Indie Next Pick
Lalani of the Distant Sea, an Indie Next Pick; and Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey, which she also illustrated.
Erin Entrada Kelly\'s debut novel, Blackbird Fly, was a Kirkus Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, an ALSC Notable Book, and an Asian/Pacific American Literature Honor Book.
Her short fiction has been nominated for the Philippines Free Press Literary Award for Short Fiction and the Pushcart Prize.
She is a professor of children\'s literature in the graduate fiction and publishing programs at Rosemont College, where she earned her MFA, and is on the faculty at Hamline University.
She grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and now lives in Delaware.
Kelly, Erin Entrada: - New York Times- bestselling author Erin Entrada Kelly was awarded the Newbery Medal for Hello, Universe and a Newbery Honor for We Dream of Space
