About Kerry
WRITER | TEACHER
I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.
-Jacqueline Woodson
Kerry Madden-Lunsford is the author of the picture book, Ernestine’s Milky Way, Random House Studios (originally published by Schwartz & Wade). She also wrote Maggie Valley Trilogy for children, which includes Gentle’s Holler, Louisiana’s Song and Jessie’s Mountain, published by Viking. Her first novel, Offsides, (Morrow) was a New York Public Library Pick for the Teen Age. Her book, Up Close Harper Lee, made Booklist’s Ten Top Biographies of 2009 for Youth. Her first picture book, Nothing Fancy About Kathryn and Charlie, was illustrated by her daughter, Lucy, and published by Mockingbird Publishers. Kerry is a regular contributor to the LA Times OpEd Page. She directs the Creative Writing Program at UAB and teaches in the Antioch MFA Program in Los Angeles. The mother of three adult children, she divides her time between Birmingham and Los Angeles.
writer | Teacher
Be like a bird, who, halting in her flight on a limb too slight, feels it give way beneath her, yet sings knowing she has wings.
- Victor Hugo
Photography and website design by Lucy Lunsford