Han Nolan

Han Nolan won the National Book Award for her young adult novel Dancing on the Edge and was an NBA finalist for Send Me Down a Miracle. Her other award-winning novels include If I Should Die Before I Wake, A Face in Every Window, Born Blue, When We Were Saints, A Summer of Kings, Crazy, and Pregnant Pause. Her work has been called “rough, raw, and riveting” as well as “deeply philosophical and psychologically complex,” and she tackles subjects ranging from possible religious miracles to teen pregnancy and mental illness with compassion, insight, and a touch of magical realism. She has been a writer-in-residence and faculty member in the Hollins University Graduate Program in Children’s Literature off and on since 2004.