Songs for a Teenage Nomad (16 page)

Songs for a Teenage Nomad
won the 2008 Ben Franklin Award for Best New Voice in Children’s/Young Adult Fiction, the silver 2008 IPPY medal for Young Adult fiction, and several other awards. Kim’s been a high school teacher for over twelve years and currently teaches creative writing at Forest Charter School. She lives with her husband and daughter in the Northern California foothills, where she often finds her own soundtrack pop up over the speakers of unlikely places like the dentist office, the county fair, and once, the restroom of a Chinese restaurant.

Visit Kim at www.kimculbertson.com