Margi Preus
Margi Preus is an American children's writer. She is a 2011 Newbery Honor winner and won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Heart of a Samurai. Her books have won multiple awards, honored as ALA/ALSC Notables, landed on many "best of" lists, featured on NPR, chosen for community reads, and translated into many languages.*
She earned a graduate degree from Binghamton University.
She taught at The College of St. Scholastica, University of Minnesota Duluth.
She lives in Duluth, Minnesota.Works
- Storm's Coming!, Illustrator David Geister, MHS Press, 2016, -0
- The Bamboo Sword, Amulet Books, 2015,
- Enchantment Lake, University of Minnesota Press, 2015,
- West of the Moon, Amulet Books, 2014,
- Shadow on The Mountain, Aumlet Books, 2012,
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- The Peace Bell, Illustrator Hideko Takahashi, Henry Holt, 2008,
- Heart of a Samurai, Amulet Books, 2010,
she was a runner up for the 2011 newbery medal and won the Asian/Pacific American award for literature.
