About
Since graduating from Brown University in 1981, Wolk has worked as a writer at the St. Paul American Indian Center, a senior editor with a Toronto publisher, a high school English teacher, Assistant Director at the Cape Cod Writers Center, and, from 2007-2021, Associate Director of the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. She has taught creative writing to students of all ages. In 1999, Random House published her first novel, Those Who Favor Fire. Her second novel, Forgiving Billy, was twice nominated for the Pushcart Editor’s Book Award and won the 2006 Hackney Literary Award. In 2016, Dutton published her New York Times bestselling novel "Wolf Hollow," which won the 2016 New England Book Award, a 2017 Newbery Honor, a 2017 Jane Addams Honor, the 2018 Massachusetts Book Award, and other honors. In 2017, Dutton published "Beyond the Bright Sea," which won the 2018 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and was short-listed for the New England Book Award, the Carnegie Award (U.K.), and other honors. "Echo Mountain" (2020) was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and others. Dutton published "My Own Lightning," a sequel to "Wolf Hollow," in 2022. Wolk is also a magazine feature writer, a visual artist represented by the Larkin Gallery (Provincetown and Harwich Port, Massachusetts), and a poet.
Featured Work
Wolf Hollow
From the publisher: Despite growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and though her bullying seems isolated at first, it quickly escalates. Toby, a reclusive World War I veteran, soon becomes the target of Betty’s attacks. While others see Toby’s strangeness, Annabelle knows only kindness. And as tensions mount in their small community, Annabelle must find the courage to stand as a lone voice for justice. The brilliantly crafted debut of Newbery Honor– and Scott O'Dell Award–winning author Lauren Wolk ("Beyond the Bright Sea," "Echo Mountain," "My Own Lightning"), the New York Times bestselling "Wolf Hollow" is a haunting tale of America at a crossroads and a time when one girl’s resilience, strength, and compassion help to illuminate the darkest corners of history.
