Author, Poet, Educator

Huge thanks to Betsy Bird & @sljournal for sharing this excerpt from my next middle grade novel, THE GRAY coming out 6/13. You can learn...

Hopeful Farmer. Let me tell you where it started. Everything changed when Ella and I left our beach place and moved twenty minutes inland...

Ask the Author: A Conversation with Author Chris Baron This blog post is part of our National Reading Month series focused on how reading...

I know some folks have asked me if I will be teaching about writing verse novels...YES! It's a dream come true for me to say that my...

THE MAGICAL IMPERFECT is nominated for a Kids' Book Choice Award (from The Children's Book Council-Every Child A Reader) in the category...

Amazing book news! So overwhelmed with joy seeing THE MAGICAL IMPERFECT selected by School Library Journal as a BEST MIDDLE GRADE BOOK...

THE MAGICAL IMPERFECT made the New York Public Library's BEST BOOKS of 2021! This means the world to a kid who grew up going there. So...

Tears of joy! Thank you! San Diego Union Tribune for this article--and for highlighting Middle Grade Books, outcasts, and the magic of...

It’s me on the radio Talking about THE MAGICAL IMPERFECT & being wayyyy to enthusiastic about Middle Grade books as a force for good in...

So thrilled to share the news that THE MAGICAL IMPERFECT my Middle Grade novel in verse from Feiwel &Friends/Macmillan, coming out 6/15...