Louise Hawes

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Louise Hawes is an American academic and author of more than a dozen novels and several short stories. She has served as Writer in Residence at the University of New Mexico and as a John Grisham Visiting Writer at the University of Mississippi. She has been a guest lecturer at the University of South Florida, Staten Island College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Meredith College, and Duke University.

Winner of the New Jersey Author’s Award and two fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, Hawes helped found the nation's only MFA Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College, and currently teaches both Fiction and Writing for Children at Spalding University's MFA in Writing Program [1] in Louisville, Kentucky. Her appearances as guest author, lecturer, and teacher have included sessions for the American Library Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, Associated Writing Programs, and the U.S. Department of Education.

Works include:

The Vanishing Point (Houghton Mifflin, 2005), nominated for the 2006 YA Best Books of the Year list, a Bank Street College pick, and a Booksense Independent Booksellers Association choice;
Waiting for Christopher (Candlewick, 2002), a New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age, and
Rosey in the Present Tense (Walker, 2000), a Children’s Book Council Best Book of the Year and YALSA Popular Paperback.

Her short fiction includes stories in Prentice Hall's fiction text, The Reader Writes the Story (1995), Simon & Schuster's Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth (2001), and the forthcoming Such a Pretty Face, from Abrams (2007) and Wishes from Scholastic. Her short fiction for adults is collected in Anteaters Don't Dream published by the University Press of Mississippi (2007).

Her dark fairy tales, The Cinderella Files: Tales Your Mother Never Told You, will be dual-published (for adult and YA readers) by Houghton Mifflin in 2008.