Elana K. Arnold is an American author of children's and young adult novels. Her Bat books, starting with A Boy Called Bat, follow a boy learning to handle change after a baby skunk arrives in his life, and her novel Damsel was named a Michael L. Printz Award Honor title in 2019. What Girls Are Made Of was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, and she teaches in the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Hamline University. She lives in Southern California.
