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A.B. Westrick–What Was on Her . . .

Posted on June 20, 2014 by sandranickel • 8 Comments

  Our guest today is author A.B. Westrick, whose impressive debut, Brotherhood, came out last year to tributes and honors. A Junior Library Guild selection. An ALA 2014 Best Book. The winner of the history teachers’ 2014 Notable Trade Book Award. And most recently, a Jane Addams Award Honor Book!* In fact, school librarians were clamoring … Continue reading →

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A blog about the writers and illustrators of children's and young adult literature. Here, we get to the heart of their work and lives by asking What Was on Their . . . minds, desks, play lists, refrigerators, and more.

Sandra Nickel

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Originally from Kansas, Sandra Nickel lived in New York, Moscow, and Paris, before landing in a village above Lake Geneva, Switzerland, where she currently lives with her husband, daughter, three cats, dog, and a pond full of koi. When Sandra trips across something that fascinates her, she posts her own What Was on My . . .

Sandra Nickel writes books and poetry for young readers. Sandra has two forthcoming picture books with Abrams Books for Young Readers and one with Lee & Low Books. Her poetry can be found in SCOOP magazine. Sandra holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has presented workshops on writing for children and young adults throughout Europe and the United States. Sandra is the winner of Hunger Mountain‘s Katherine Paterson Prize for picture books for two years running, 2016 and 2017.

My Latest News . . .

I am thrilled to announce that I won the Katherine Paterson Prize for Picture Books for the second year in a row.

‘The Sun Has a Secret,’ my poem about the sun falling for the moon, is in SCOOP’s 1st anniversary issue. If you haven’t yet picked up an issue of SCCOP, do. It’s a brilliant new children’s magazine that counts among its contributors Neil Gaiman, Sir Tom Stoppard, Herbie Brennan, and Jacqueline Wilson.

I presented a Breakout Session at SCBWI’s Annual Summer Conference in Los Angeles (July 29-August1, 2016). I loved seeing a nearly packed room at ‘Enter: The Antagonist. No, scratch that. Enter: The Antagonists, Plural.’

Other News . . .

Melanie Fishbane invited me to join her series on Embodying Character, where she interviews the actors of Anne & Gilbert, a musical adapted from L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island, all toward the end of investigating the overlaps between writing and acting.

Before taking up writing, I studied acting for three years in New York City. If you were a fan of New York's acting scene, you might have caught me in some very dark, very serious off-off-Broadway showcases and as a nurse on The City or serving up coffee as 'Sandy' on As the World Turns. So, as you can imagine, I'm endlessly fascinated by the similarities between writing and acting and was thrilled to participate in Mel's series.

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MORE NEWS . . .

The Paris Review celebrated James Fenimore Cooper's birthday by picking up and republishing portions of my April 30, 2014 blog--The Voracious Child Readers of Russia. If you would like to read the Paris Review's Natty Bumppo, Soviet Folk Hero (September 15, 2014), click below.
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Hunger Mountain featured A Secret Never Told, my middle grade mystery set in a Swiss boarding school, in its March 2015 Mentors and Tormentors issue.

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