Lisa Rogers is a former elementary school librarian and newspaper reporter and editor and author of 16 WORDS: WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS AND THE RED WHEELBARROW, illus. Chuck Groenink (Schwartz & Wade) and starred by Kirkus and Publishers Weekly; BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE MUSIC OF JOHN CAGE, illus. Il Sung Na (Anne Schwartz Books), starred by Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and Horn Book; HOUND WON'T GO, illus. Meg Ishihara (Albert Whitman), a Massachusetts Must-Read; DISCOVER HER ART: Women Artists and Their Masterpieces (Chicago Review Press.) Awards: PEN-New England Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award; Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe award. Forthcoming: WOODY'S WORDS: WOODROW WILSON RAWLS AND WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS (Astra/Calkins Creek). Rep'd by Erzsi Deak, Hen&ink Literary.