Lyn Fairchild Hawks

Lyn Fairchild Hawks writes about gifted, weird, activist teens. She is the author of the young adult novels, @nervesofsteel and How Wendy Redbird Dancing Survived the Dark Ages of Nought, and Minerda, a middle grade graphic novella and collaboration with illustrator Robin Follet. She is also the author of The Flat and Weightless Tang-Filled Future, a short story collection.

Lyn is an MFA graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts' Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She's the 2021 winner of the Norma Fox Mazer Award, a recipient of an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, and a James Jones First Novel Fellowship contest semifinalist. She is represented by Tara Gelsomino of One Track Literary.

In her other life, Lyn runs Success Story essay consulting, mentors young writers, and writes lessons for teachers. She's written Teaching Macbeth: A Differentiated Approach, Teaching Julius Caesar: A Differentiated Approach, and is co-author of The Compassionate Classroom: Lessons that Nurture Wisdom and Empathy and Teaching Romeo and Juliet: A Differentiated Approach.