Advanced Fiction: Writing the Middle Grade and Young Adult Novel

Mary Sullivan Walsh is the author of High, a young adult (YA) novel in verse which won the Eric Hoffer Award for YA literature and Dear Blue Sky, a middle grade (MG) novel, winner of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Award. Her other novels include Stay and Ship Sooner, and she has ghostwritten for the Beacon Street Girls series. She is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Literature, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and a St. Botolph's Award. She was chosen as one of the Border's Original New Voices. She is a freelance editor and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.