Ali Standish

Ali Standish is the award-winning author of books for the young and young at heart, including the Carnegie-nominated The Ethan I Was Before , August Isle , Bad Bella , The Climbers , How to Disappear Completely , The Mending Summer , and Yonder . Her books are Junior Library Guild Selections, have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly , Kirkus Reviews , ALA Booklist , and School Library Journal , have been named as Indie Next titles and nominated for Goodreads Choice Awards. During...See more

Ali Standish is the award-winning author of books for the young and young at heart, including the Carnegie-nominated The Ethan I Was Before , August Isle , Bad Bella , The Climbers , How to Disappear Completely , The Mending Summer , and Yonder . Her books are Junior Library Guild Selections, have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly , Kirkus Reviews , ALA Booklist , and School Library Journal , have been named as Indie Next titles and nominated for Goodreads Choice Awards. During her years living in a tumbledown Victorian cottage in the UK, she obtained a master's degree in children's literature from the University of Cambridge. She now resides in North Carolina with her husband and sons. You can visit her online at alistandish.com. See less