Award-winning author Lisa Rogers was inspired to write for children through her career as an elementary school librarian.

JOAN MITCHELL PAINTS A SYMPHONY, about the iconic abstract artist, illustrated by Stacy Innerst, received the Eureka! Nonfiction Silver Honor Award from the California Reading Association. In a starred review, Kirkus called the book "Simply marvelous."

WOODY'S WORDS: WOODROW WILSON RAWLS AND 'WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS, illustrated by Susan Reagan, about the life of the author of the classic novel of a boy and his hounds, was called ""A poignant tribute to the power of story" by Kirkus.

BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE MUSIC OF JOHN CAGE, illustrated by Il Sung Na (Random House Kids/Anne Schwartz Books) received 3 starred reviews, the SCBWI Golden Kite Honor Award for Nonfiction Picture Book Text, was named a Julia Ward Howe Award Notable Book by the Boston Authors Club and was a Crystal Kite Finalist.

Her debut picture book, 16 WORDS: WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS AND “THE RED WHEELBARROW,” (Random House/Schwartz & Wade), was featured in The New York Times, received 2 starred reviews, won the Julia Ward Howe Award from the Boston Authors Club & the Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award & was a Crystal Kite finalist.

HOUND WON’T GO, illustrated by Meg Ishihara (Albert Whitman). was inspired by Lisa's stubborn but lovable hound and is a Massachusetts Must-Read.

She's the author of the best-selling ELVIS PRESLEY: A LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK BIOGRAPHY (illus. Luke Flowers) and RONALD REAGAN: A LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK BIOGRAPHY (illus. Catherine Pape), both from Random House Kids.

Her poem is the title poem of the anthology IF I COULD CHOOSE A BEST DAY from acclaimed poets and editors Irene Latham & Charles Waters (Candlewick).

Lisa is co-author of DISCOVER HER ART: WOMEN ARTISTS AND THEIR MASTERPIECES, which looks at the lives and art of 24 women painters (Chicago Review Press).

Lisa holds a BA in English Literature from William & Mary, an MA in English from Boston College, and an MLS from Southern Connecticut State University.

A former newspaper reporter and editor, she grew up on the New Jersey shore, lives near Boston, and has run the Boston Marathon four times.