Lauren Wolk is an American author, poet and editor who was born in Baltimore and studied English literature at Brown University. Her novels include Wolf Hollow, which earned a Newbery Honor in 2017, and Beyond the Bright Sea, which won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction in 2018. Both are coming-of-age stories, and Beyond the Bright Sea follows a girl in a coastal town where a shipwreck sets a mystery unfolding.
