Barbara Shoup

Barbara Shoup is the Writer-in-Residence at the Indiana Writers Center, where she teaches and mentors writers of all ages and directs a summer learning program for at-risk youth. Her novels for young people have been honored by the PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, the American Library Association, the Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books, the Voice of Young America (VOYA), and the International Reading Association. She lives in Indianapolis.