Chelsea Lin Wallace: Author + Poet 

Chelsea Lin Wallace is an award-winning children’s author, poet, and school theater director with a master’s in education. She is the author of A Home Named Walter, Ode to a Bad Day, The Boo-Boos of Bluebell Elementary, Dare to be Daring, and the upcoming We Are the Theater, A Day in the Life of a Day, and the School Hero Series (Holiday House). She loves to write stories packed with kid-drama that touch the heart and tickle the funny bone. A theater kid at heart, she has adapted many of her picture books to Reader's Theater scripts (available for free on her website). She is represented by Jen Rofé at Andrea Brown Literary Agency and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, daughter, and her dog, Lucky.

Honors include The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor, Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, and Chicago Public Library and Bank Street College of Education Best Books of the Year. Chelsea is a member of SCBWI and a Critique Ninja at the 12x12 Picture Book Challenge.