Susan Krawitz

Viva, Rose! was named a 2017 National Jewish Book Award Debut Fiction finalist, a 2018 Sydney Taylor Honor Book for older readers, and a 2018 Spur Award finalist for Juvenile Fiction.

Susan Krawitz has managed a rock climbing instruction school, taught preschool, written and edited for newspapers, websites, and magazines, and currently works as a freelance book editor. She lives on an old farmstead in New York’s Hudson Valley where she obsesses over a large garden and a small flock of chickens. Viva, Rose! is her first novel.