Helen Frost

Helen Frost was born in Brookings, South Dakota, and grew up in a family of ten children. She taught elementary school in Vermont, Scotland, and Alaska before becoming a full-time writer. Her novels, poetry, and picture books have won numerus honors and awards, including a Michael L. Printz honor for Keesha's House. She lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where her yard is a "monarch way station" with hundreds of milkweed plants and nectar flowers that she has planted especially for monarch butterflies.