Nancy Antle has been writing for children for twenty-five years. Her poems and shorts stories have been published in Cricket, Children’s Playmate and School Magazine (in Australia). Her short story, “The King’s Cure for Hiccups”, won the SCBWI Magazine Merit award for Fiction. Nancy has also published books – everything from picture books and beginning readers to short chapter books and novels. Her novel, Lost In The War, was nominated for reader awards in Missouri, Nebraska, South Carolina and Western Australia. (Unfortunately, her book was nominated along with some other clever little books by J.K. Rowling and Louis Sacher.) Lost In The War was also named to Bank Street College’s Best Books of the Year list and was a selector’s choice for the NCSS-CBC Best List.

One of Nancy’s biggest success stories was the publication of her picture book, Ordinary Albert, by Harper Collins/Australia. This book started out as a picture book manuscript that Nancy sent to every publisher she could think of in the United States. No one wanted it. Finally, one kindly editor said it really seemed as if the manuscript was more of a short story. Never one to ignore an editor’s advice, Nancy proceeded to send the manuscript to every children’s magazine in the United States as a short story. Still no one wanted it. About this time, she read an article that suggested authors submit work to children’s magazines in Australia. She sent her story in to School Magazine there, and they bought it right away. It was published a year later. Soon after its publication, the Australian illustrator, Pamela Allen, contacted Nancy telling her she loved her short story and wondered if she could turn it into a picture book. So -- fifteen years after it was first written as a picture book it was finally published as one.

Nancy has had a variety of other jobs over the years but is currently a full time writer living in New Haven, Connecticut with her husband, two kids and two pets. For more information on Nancy or her books or to send her an email, visit her website at www.nancyantle.com.