About

Lauren Wolk is best known for her novels, including the New York Times bestselling novel Wolf Hollow, which won a 2017 Newbery Honor, the 2016 New England Book Award, a 2017 Jane Addams Honor, the 2018 Massachusetts Book Award, and other honors.

In 2017, Dutton published Beyond the Bright Sea, which won the  2018 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and was short-listed for  several awards, including the New England Book Award and the Carnegie Award (U.K.).

In 2020, Echo Mountain was named a Best Book of the  Year by NPR, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and others. 

Dutton published My Own Lightning, a sequel to Wolf Hollow, in 2022.

Wolk's latest novel, Candle Island, published in 2025, is a finalist for the New England Book Award. 

Collectively,  her books have won over 50 state book awards. Lauren is also the Massachusetts Reading Association’s 2024 Children’s Literature Award  winner and the author of two new picture books, currently in production.

She is also as a visual artist  represented by the Larkin Gallery (Provincetown and Harwich Port, Massachusetts), an award-winning poet, and a filmmaker. 

Lauren is represented by Jodi Reamer at Writers House, NYC.  jreamer@writershouse.com

Her publicist at Penguin Young Readers, Lizzie Goodell, can be reached at lgoodell@penguinrandomhouse.com.

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