Since I can’t jump into a time machine (at least, not until someone invents one that works!) I must travel back to the past in my stories. I always wondered what it would be like to live, work, love, and play in another time and place, and to see the world through a different set of eyes than my own. What about the past intrigues you? What inspires you to mine it for stories and information to share with young readers?Įver since I was young, I wanted to travel back into the past in a time machine. Looking over your published books, it’s clear you have a passion for history. The mother of two grown sons, Liza and her husband divide their time between the Boston area and a cabin high in Vermont’s Green Mountains.
Her passions-besides reading and writing-include gardening, canoeing, hiking, music, art, theater, traveling, and exploring nature. She has taught writing at Emerson College and Simmons College, and she is currently on the faculty of the MFA Program in Writing for Children at Vermont College. She founded and directed a preschool and has taught writing to students of all ages.
Liza has been a teacher for most of her adult life. Liza’s books have appeared on the ALA’s “Best Book lists,” numerous state award lists, Bank Street College’s “Best Book List,” and on the NY Public Library’s “List for the Teenage.” Her essays and articles on writing, teaching, gardening, and rural life have appeared in numerous magazines. Her books also include a ghost story, two middle grade novels, two biographies of women scientists, and a picture book, Good-Bye, Sammy, illustrated by Gail Owens (Holiday House, 1989). Other titles by Liza about the American pioneer experience are the popular serialized adventure novel, Orphan Journey Home (Avon, 2000) and the non-fiction titles Into a New Country: Eight Remarkable Women of the West (Little, Brown, 2000 an ALA “Best Book” for 2001), and The Gold Rush (Little, Brown, 1996) a companion to the PBS series “The West.”īlue Coyote (Simon and Schuster, 1997) the final title in her quartet of young adult novels, was nominated for a Lambda Literary award. The book is based on a true story about her ancestors, a Pequot Indian midwife and an English farmer who lived in central Vermont during the 18th century. Liza Ketchum is the author of fourteen books for young readers, including the recent historical title, Where the Great Hawk Flies (Clarion, 2005), a novel in two voices.
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