Sara St. Antoine

Sara St. Antoine is a children's book author and environmental writer with a longstanding interest in how stories shape--and are shaped by--our relationship to the natural world. Her newest novel, Front Country (Chronicle Books, 2022), is about a 14-year-old girl's reckoning with climate grief. Her middle grade novel Three Bird Summer (Candlewick, 2014) is a realistic story set at a rustic lake cabin in northern Minnesota. Sara is also the editor of the Stories from Where We Live anthology series—volumes of fiction, poetry, and memoir that offer insights into people’s relationship to the natural world in different ecoregions of North America. The series, published by Milkweed Editions, currently includes volumes on the North Atlantic Coast, Great North American Prairie, California Coast, Gulf Coast, Great Lakes, and South Atlantic Coast and Piedmont. In addition to these projects, Sara has created educational materials for the National Wildlife Federation, Conservation International, World Wildlife Fund, National Audubon Society, and Western National Parks Association. She's written environmental science radio dramas for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. And from 2009-10, she received a Switzer Leadership Grant to create outreach materials for the Children and Nature Network, including a website of activities and book recommendations to inspire families to spend more time together outdoors . . .and reading!