Anna Sortino

Her stories center disabled characters living their lives and falling in love. She lives in Chicago with her dog.

Anna’s books have won an ALA Schneider Family Honor Award, the Yellowhammer Young Adult Book Award, and the Garden State Teen Book Award; earned starred trade reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books; were featured on ‘best of the year’ lists for the New York Public Library, Boston Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Bookshop.org, Amazon, School Library Journal, and Kirkus; and were picks for Target, Amazon, YALSA, Kids’ Indie Next, Indies Introduce, Junior Library Guild, and NEA Read Across America; as well as nominated for over twenty state award and recommended reading lists.