From Journalism to Children's Books with Katherine Marsh

In this episode of the SCBWI Podcast, we are joined by Katherine Marsh!Katherine Marsh is an award-winning author of novels for middle-grade readers including The Lost Year (coming January 2023!); Nowhere Boy, winner of the Middle East Book Award; The Night Tourist, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery; Jepp, Who Defied the Stars, a New York Times Notable; and The Door By The Staircase, a Junior Library Guild selection. Katherine grew up in Yonkers, New York in the home of her Ukrainian grandma who taught her to love stories and borscht. A former journalist and managing editor of The New Republic, Katherine lives in Washington, DC with her husband, two children and an astonishing array of pets.https://katherinemarsh.com/https://www.instagram.com/katherinemarshauthorBuy  The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Faminehttps://bookshop.org/p/books/the-lost-year-katherine-marsh/18231657?ean=9781250313607and check out the rest of her books here:https://bookshop.org/contributors/katherine-marshSCBWI on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scbwi/SCBWI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/scbwiBecome an SCBWI member today: https://www.scbwi.org/join-scbwi/Shop the SCBWI Bookshop.org page: https://bookshop.org/shop/SCBWISupport the show