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 I’ve
ridden an elephant, swallowed
fried grasshoppers, lived
on a commune, flown a hangglider (and crashed), picked coffee beans and
fed
them to a monkey, peered into a live volcano, watched my toddler soar
around a
big top in the arms of a Mexican trapeze artist dressed as Spiderman,
swum through
a pitch-black cave to a tiny and perfect hidden beach, milked goats,
skied in
the Alps (and crashed), hiked up a
glacier and alarmed
a moose, torn down a barn, gone to a “sit-up” (a Jamaican wake), hung
out with Cambodian
monks, pedaled
across the Blue Ridge Mountains in a homemade superhero cape, woven
lots of hammocks,
snaked a drain, gazed upon The Garden of
Earthly Delights, and danced
till
dawn. Mostly, though, I spend a lot of time at the computer.
I’ve never had a cell phone, I
don’t
watch TV (okay,
sometimes a clip on YouTube), and my favorite part of being a writer is
getting
to work in my pajamas.
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What I can do:
- Say,
“Where’s the
bathroom, please?” in Thai
- Balance
in
half
moon pose (usually)
- Whip
up a
mean
moussaka
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What I can’t do:
- Turn a
cartwheel
- Juggle
- Draw a
cow
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Official-sounding
bio
Mara
Rockliff's books have received starred
reviews in Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and
Booklist and
have appeared on the IndieNext and ALA
Best New Books for the Classroom lists. Current titles include the
picture
books Me
and Momma and Big John (Golden Kite Award, Charlotte Zolotow Honor, Junior Library Guild Selection) and My Heart Will
Not Sit Down (Ezra Jack Keats Honor) as well as her
popular Milo
& Jazz Mysteries chapter book series, published under
the pen
name Lewis B. Montgomery. Her buy-better manifesto Get Real:
What Kind of
World Are You Buying? (Running Press Teens) was a
2011 Green Earth Book
Awards honor book.
Rockliff's
public speaking experience includes TV and radio
as well as bookstores, libraries, schools, children's museums, writing
workshops, book festivals, and state and regional conferences for
teachers and
librarians. She lives in eastern Pennsylvania with her family. Visit
her online at mararockliff.com.
Interviews etc. (most recent first)
Email me at:
Or contact my agent, Jennifer
Laughran of the Andrea
Brown Literary Agency, at jennL@andreabrownlit.com.
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