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Mary Ann Fraser Author & Illustrator

Award-winning picture-book author-illustrator Mary Ann Fraser makes her YA fiction debut with MORTAL REMAINS. Mary Ann has written and/or illustrated over 60 books for young readers. Mary Ann’s books have been Junior Library Guild Selections, and have been awarded Book Links Book of the Year, IRA Young Readers Choice Award, and American Booksellers’ “Pick of the List.” She is a long-standing member of SCBWI as well as one of its Regional Advisors, and a founding member of the Children’s Authors Network. Publishers Weekly called her recent picture book No YetiI Yet "wintry fun for the cryptozoologically inclined” while Kirkus praised last year’s Graham Bell Answers the Call, saying, "Calling out to history buffs and scientists, this will inspire young inventors.”