Susan Kneib Schank

Missouri County:

Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, Autobiography/Biography, Missouri-related

Audience: Children

Books
"Tera's Dawn", Purple Sky Publishing, 2008.
"Gilda Can't Gallop", Living Waters Publishing, to be released spring 2008.
"Princess Rose and the Garden Gnome", Purple Sky Publishing, release expected late 2008.

Features within books
Poem-"Grow a Story" is the second-place national winner featured in the national Half-Price Books Store "Say Goodnight to Illiteracy Bedtime Story Book", 2006.
Poem-"Just After You Were Born" featured in Miracles of Motherhood: Poems and Prayers for New Mothers, published by June Cotner Books, 2007.
Devotionals-"Love Her" and "Respect" featured in A Cup of Comfort Devotional for Mothers published by Adams Media Corporation, 2007

Magazines & Other Publication
"Highlights for Children" and "Highlights High Five" have published several of my crafts, stories, and poems.
Features published in School Library Media Activities Monthly and EyeCare Business magazines.
Clubhouse Magazine will publish my feature article "Baton Girl" spring 2008.
The Kansas City Star, Metro Voice, Paw Prints Magazine, Kansas City Parent, and the Press Dispatch.

Awards
Poem "Grow a Story" recently won second place in the national Half-Price Books Store "Say Goodnight to Illiteracy Bedtime Story Book" contest
Story "White Wings in the Snow" placed second in the Heart of America Christian Writers Network annual conference writer's competition.
Three-time winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Mini-Grant.

Have any works been translated into other languages? No

Speaking Engagements:

Author accepts.
Fee for speaking:  Depends
Limitations on travel: None

Contact Information:

contact author directly

phone: (816) 505-1510
e-mail: Sschank64@sbcglobal.net
web site: www.susankneibschank.com