Jennifer Voigt KaplanJennifer Voigt Kaplan is an award-winning author of children's fiction. Her short stories have been published in compilation books and magazines, including Hopscotch for Girls and New Mitzvah Stories for The Whole Family. Her debut upper middle-gradenovel, Crushing the Red Flowers, was awarded a Letter of Merit for the 2012 SCBWI Work-in-Progress Grant and won first place in the middle-grade category of Publishers Weekly 2016 Booklife Prize for Fiction. It was also honored in the William Faulkner/ William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, the Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Award, the Gertrude Warner Award, the A Woman's Write Unpublished Novel Contest, and the Authors.me Diversity Contest. Read More Read Less