Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (she/her) is the author of Newbery Honor winners Fighting Wordsand The War that Saved My Life. The sequel to the latter, The War I Finally Won, appeared on many state-award andbest-books lists and was described as “stunning” by The Washington Post and “honest” and “daring” by The New YorkTimes. Kimberly and her husband have two grown children and live with their dog, several ponies, a highlyopinionated mare, and a surplus of cats on a fifty-two acre farm in Bristol, Tennessee.