Michelle Knudsen
Michelle Knudsen is a "New York Times" best-selling American children's author. She has written more than 47 books for children, including the multiple-award-winning "Library Lion", the Trelian middle grade fantasy trilogy, and the young adult novels "Evil Librarian, Revenge of the Evil Librarian," and the forthcoming "Curse of the Evil Librarian" (Candlewick Press, August 13, 2019). Knudsen graduated from Cornell University and received an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from The Vermont College of Fine Arts. She currently teaches in Lesley University's MFA program in creative writing. Biography. Michelle Knudsen  is a "New York Times" best-selling author of more than 45 books for young readers, including board books, picture books, early readers, and middle grade and young adult novels. Her best-known book to date is the award-winning picture book "Library Lion", which has been translated into fourteen languages, is currently being performed as a musical stage production in Israel and South Africa, and was selected by "Time" Magazine as one of the Best 100 Children's Books of All Time. She is also the author of the Trelian trilogy of fantasy novels ("The Dragon of Trelian", "The  Princess of Trelian", and "The Mage of Trelian") and the Evil Librarian trilogy of young adult novels, the first of which was awarded the 2015 Sid Fleischman Award for Humor. Michelle also works as a freelance editor and writing teacher, and is a member of the Writing for Young People MFA faculty at Lesley University. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.