Shirin Yim Bridges

Shirin Yim Bridges is the author of Ruby's Wish, one of Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of 2002 and winner of two 2003 Ezra Jack Keats awards; The Umbrella Queen, named one of the Best Children's Books of 2008 by TIME magazine; Mary Wrightly So Politely which won a featured review in the New York Times Review of Books; The Thinking Girl's Treasury of Real Princesses; Agrippina, Atrocious and Ferocious in The Thinking Girl's Treasury of Dastardly Dames; Call Me Athena in The Treasury of Glorious Goddesses; Horrible Hauntings; Get Up, Elizabeth! and Go To Bed, Ted!

Shirin lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she writes, teaches writing and hosts writers' retreats.

You can find out more about her under her married name, Shirin Yim Leos, at www.shirinyimleos.com