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Yvonne Pearson has written 16 books for children, including her picture book Sadie Braves the Wilderness. She was a 2018 Loft-McKnight Writing Fellow and has received other awards as well. Poetry is another literary love. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband but escapes winters in California.