J Bean Palmer

Winner of the Mom's Choice Award for excellence and the 2016 New Book Award, J Bean Palmer's Cape Cod Witch Series calls upon her family's long history in New England including a Revolutionary "Green Mountain Boy", Cape Cod cranberry farmers and artists, and an oft-told family legend that as her grandmother's ancestors stepped off the Mayflower, her grandfather's relatives were there to greet them. With a degree in Environmental Science (summa cum laude, University of Maine), the author's ElsBeth stories reflect a passion and respect for the natural world and its magical kinship.

J Bean is a member of the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, National League of American Pen Women, and a former member of the board of the Cape Cod Writers Center.