Gwen Strauss is the author of The Nine (St. Martin’s Press, 2021), the story of her great-aunt Hélène Podliasky’s escape from a German forced-labor camp. She is also the author of poetry collection Trail of Stones. Her works for children include The Night Shimmy; Ruth and the Greenbook, recipient of the ALA 2011 Most Notable Middle Grade Reader; and The Hiding Game, winner of a Parent’s Choice Award. Strauss lives in Southern France with her three children and serves as director of an artist’s residency program at the Dora Maar House.
Photograph by Robert Hale.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Ella Says and Other Poems, poetry, in Fall 2021
