Bio

JILL CORCORAN is an award-winning children’s poet and writer. Corcoran earned a BA in English from Stanford University and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from The University of Chicago. After years of marketing and advertising, she gave up the glamour of cereal boxes and sneakers for family life with her husband, 3 kids and 2 dogs. She now takes writing classes at UCLA, writes children ’s books, and teaches writing workshops in Palos Verdes, California. An article about her workshops has been syndicated in parenting magazines nationwide by Kathy Sena (www.kathysena.com).

Corcoran’s YA novel TWIN SISTER: I AM NOT YOU won a Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Work-in-Progress Honorary Mention, and her humorous picture book collection, SINK YOUR TEETH INTO POETRY won the SCBWI Los Angeles Writer's Day Poetry Award.

Jill Corcoran is  the anthologist for DARE TO DREAM...CHANGE THE WORLD, a fully illustrated collection of biographical and inspirational paired poems that seek to inform, inspire, ignite middle graders to imagine, persevere and to act, Kane Miller Books, Fall 2012.

I AM THE BOOK
Holiday House, 2011
Lee Bennet Hopkins will be featuring Jill Corcoran's poem, PIRATES, in a two-page spread in this 13-poem middle-grade collection. Other contributors include: Jane Yolen, Karla Kuskin, Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Karen B. Winnick, Michele Kruger, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, Avis Harvey, Tom Robert Shields, Kristin O'Connell George and Naomi Shihab Nye

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