Chara M. Curtis

Since her Minnesota school days, Chara Curtis has immersed herself in reading books of all kinds and creative writing. After working in advertising and music publishing in Chicago and Nashville, she moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she lives in a neighborhood occupied by dogs, cats, deer, raccoons, squirrels, birds, earthworms and snails, as well as a number of gentle people. In 1997, Chara and illustrator Rebecca Hyland received the Washington State Governor's Writers Award for their book, NO ONE WALKS ON MY FATHER'S MOON.