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Nora Ericson is an award-winning author of books for kids. She grew up in central New York and studied painting at Yale University before heading west and taking up writing. After working her way up the left coast, she now makes her home in Portland, Oregon with two kids, two dogs and two cats. Besides reading and writing, she loves cooking, camping, and whittling spoons while dreaming of her future miniature donkey farm. A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts (Writing for Children and Young Adults), Nora is the author of the Dill & Bizzy series, illustrated by Lisa Ericson and Too Early, illustrated by Canadian paper artist Elly MacKay. Too Early received four starred reviews and many honors, including being named an ALA Notable, a Bank Street College Best Book of the Year and the 2023 Margaret Wise Brown Prize Honor Book, given specifically for a picture book text. Too Early also won the 2024 Oregon Book Award. Nora’s next book, The Bunny Ballet, also illustrated by Elly MacKay, will be out in November, 2025.