Louise Hawes
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Louise Hawes (also known as L. E. Hawes; her married name is Louise Jacobson) is the author of more than a dozen novels, including The Vanishing Point (Houghton Mifflin, 2005), nominated for the 2006 YA Best Books of the Year list, a Bank Street College pick, and a Booksense Independent Booksellers Association choice; Waiting for Christopher (Candlewick, 2002), a New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age, and Rosey in the Present Tense (Walker, 2000), a Children’s Book Council Best Book of the Year and YALSA Popular Paperback. Her short fiction for young adults includes stories in Prentice Hall's fiction text, The Reader Writes the Story (1995), Simon & Schuster's Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth (2001), and the forthcoming Such a Pretty Face, from Abrams (2007) and Wishes from Scholastic. Her YA collection, The Cinderella Files: Tales Your Mother Never Told You, will be published by Houghton Mifflin in 2008.
Winner of the New Jersey Author’s Award and two fellowships from the NJ Council on the Arts, Louise is a founding faculty member of the nation's only MFA Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College. Her appearances as guest author, lecturer, and teacher have included sessions for the American Library Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, Associated Writing Programs, and the US Department of Education. She has served as Writer in Residence at the University of New Mexico and as guest lecturer at the University of South Florida, Staten Island College, the University of NC at Chapel Hill, the University of NC at Charlotte, Meredith College, and Duke University.
