K.A. Holt

Kari Anne Holt is the best-selling author of more than fifteen books for young readers, including the award-winning middle grade novels-in-verse House Arrest, Redwood & Ponytail, and the Kids Under the Stairs series. Her picture book, I Wonder, was featured in Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and was nominated for a Bill Martin Jr. Picture Book Award. Kari Anne's writing for adults has been featured in several Best of McSweeney's collections, Publisher's Weekly, and in KUT's syndicated weekly radio news program, The Texas Standard. Kari Anne is a founding member of Typewriter Rodeo, a traveling custom-poetry collective, and she teaches in Vermont College of Fine Art's Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program. Kari Anne lives in Austin, TX.