Claudia Mills

Claudia Mills is the author of over 60 books for young readers, including picture books, easy readers, chapter books, and middle-grade novels. Her most recent titles are Calliope Callisto Clark and the Search for Wisdom, The Last Apple Tree, The Lost Language, and the After-School Superstars chapter-book series. She was also a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder for almost a quarter of a century, specializing in ethics and political philosophy, and currently teaches in the graduate programs in children’s literature at Hollins University in Roanoke. Her books have been named Notable Books of the Year by the American Library Association and translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. All of her books were written between 5 and 7 in the morning, lying on the couch with her favorite clipboard, narrow-ruled pad of white paper, and fine-tipped black marker pens, while drinking Swiss Miss hot chocolate.