Bio:

Gigi Amateau is the author of Come August, Come Freedom, a work of historical fiction for young adults (Candlewick Press, September 2012), selected by SIBA as a Fall 2012 Okra Pick. She also wrote the young adult novel, A Certain Strain of Peculiar, a 2010 Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year, and Chancey of the Maury River, a William Allen White Masters List title for grades 3-5. Her debut novel, Claiming Georgia Tate was selected as a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. She received a Theresa Pollak Award for Excellence in the Arts in 2012.

She was born in northeastern Mississippi and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia, just outside of Richmond. A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a degree in Urban Studies and Planning, she worked for nearly twenty years in Richmond's non-profit community. Gigi lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband and daughter. Connect with Gigi at: www.gigiamateau.com.


Writer
PAL
Member since 2005
Region: Mid Atlantic (D.C./Virginia)

Contact Information

Current Location:   Richmond
Website:  http://www.gigiamateau.com

Published In Children's Market: Yes
Available for Speaking Engagements? Yes