Christine Amamiya is a poet and a dreamer. She grew up in Arizona, and her first poem was published in 2004 in a collection of poems titled “Colours of the Heart.” A 2005 Lamont Younger Poet’s Prize winner and Scholastic Art and Writing Awards national gold medalist, she has also been published in Scholastic’s Best Teen Writing of 2007 as one of 50 featured writers. Three-time recipient of the Lewis Sibley Poetry Prize, she recently won a prestigious Silver Award for a General Writing Portfolio in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in addition to being published in the Eight Schools 8x8. In her free time, she loves to spend time with her little sister, read, write, and figure skate. Christine is an English major at Harvard University, where she has most recently been awarded the Harvard David Ecker Short Story Prize.
Illustrator Kazuo Miyagi is a retired economist, with a Master’s degree in Business Administration. Born in Tokyo, Japan, he grew up with lots of manga. When not drawing elephants he practices tai-chi and reads Peanuts. He loves children, animals, and classic music. He lives in the Southwest with his wife Lynn and two dogs, Lily and Skip.
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