Speaker: Michelle Edwards
Topic: A Knitter's Notebook

Michelle Edwards is an author and illustrator of many award-winning books for children, one book for adults, and nearly one hundred essays and cards for knitters.
Her picture book, A HAT FOR MRS. GOLDMAN: A STORY ABOUT KNITTING AND LOVE, illustrated by G. Brian Karas, received four starred reviews, a Sydney Taylor Silver Medal, a Wilde Award, and was both a Hicklebee’s Book of the Year and a Junior Library Guild selection.
Michelle writes about family, friendship, community, and knitting. Her work chronicles the large and small victories and defeats of everyday life. Michelle frequently shares her paintings and process on Instagram and on her website. (www.michelledwards.com)
Michelle grew up in Troy, New York and now lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where she shares, with her husband, a house full of books, yarn, and the artifacts of their three daughters’ childhoods.