Mary Ann Smith Illustrator, Author & Editor

Sandra Murphy is professor emerita at the University of California, Davis and a former secondary teacher of English and journalism. Mary Ann Smith is a former secondary teacher of English and journalism. She directed the Bay Area and California Writing Projects and served as the director of Government Relations and Public Affairs for the National Writing Project. They are coauthors of Writing to Make an Impact: Expanding the Vision of Writing in the Secondary Classroom and Uncommonly Good Ideas—Teaching Writing in the Common Core Era.