Margi preus biography of donald
Bio: Margi Preus is the author of the Newbery Honor book Heart of a Samurai and other books for young readers, including the Minnesota Book.
Margi Preus spent 25 years as the artistic director of Duluth's Colder by the Lake Comedy Theatre, where she wrote, produced and directed sketches, operas..
Margi Preus
American children's writer
Margi Preus is an American children's writer.
She is a 2011 Newbery Honor winner and won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Heart of a Samurai.[1] Her books have won multiple awards, honored as ALA/ALSC Notables, landed on many "best of" lists, featured on NPR, chosen for community reads, and translated into many languages.*
She earned her undergraduate degree at Luther College and graduate degree from Binghamton University.[2] She taught at the College of St.
Scholastica, University of Minnesota Duluth.[3] She lives in Duluth, Minnesota.[4]
Works
- Windswept, Illustrator Armando Veve, Harry N. Abrams, 2022, ISBN 978-1419758249
- Storm's Coming!, Illustrator David Geister, MHS Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-68134-0180-0
- The Bamboo Sword, Amulet Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4197-0807-7
- Enchantment Lake, University of Minnesota Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-8166-8302