Angelica Shirley Carpenter is a writer and photographer who travels extensively to do research for her books. She has published five biographies for young people, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. Frank Baum, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Lewis Carroll, all from Lerner Publications, and Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist (South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2018). She has published two picture books, The Voice of Liberty (SDHSP, 2020), and The Secret Gardens of Frances Hodgson Burnett (Bushel & Peck, 2024). Her 2025 book is Arm in Arm: The Grimké Sisters' Fight for Abolition and Women's Rights. Angelica also edited a scholarly anthology, In the Garden: Essays in Honor of Frances Hodgson Burnett (Scarecrow), based on an international Burnett conference she hosted in Fresno. As founding curator of the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at California State University, Fresno, she organized conferences for the Children’s Literature Association and the International Board on Books for Young People as well as regional meetings for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Past president of the International Wizard of Oz Club, she is a member of the Authors Guild, Authors Against Banned Books, League of Women Voters, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Her website is www.angelicacarpenter.com.