Kelly Barnhill lives in Minnesota with her husband and three children. She is the author of four novels, most recently The Girl Who Drank the Moon, winner of the 2017 John Newbery Medal for the year’s most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. She is also the winner of a World Fantasy Award and a Parents’ Choice Gold Award. She has been a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, the NCTE Charlotte Huck Award, the SFWA Andre Norton Award, and the PEN/USA literary prize. 
“'The Girl Who Drank the Moon' is as exciting and layered as classics like 'Peter Pan' or 'The Wizard of Oz.'” New York Times
"Each story is written in intensely poetic language that can exult or disturb, sometimes within the same sentence, and evokes a dreamlike, enchanted mood that lingers in the reader’s mind."Publishers Weekly
“Finds the author at her most poignant and surprising." Entertainment Weekly
"A fantasist on the order of Neil Gaiman" Minneapolis Star Tribune