Dashka Slater

Dashka Slater is a New York Times bestselling author of fifteen books of fiction and nonfiction for children, teenagers, and adults, her work has been translated into more than fifteen languages and has won numerous awards, including the 2024 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize from the Columbia Journalism School and Harvard’s Neiman Foundation for her nonfiction narrative, Accountable, the 2023 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Award for her short story, The Jeanines of Summer, and the 2018 Wanda Gág Read Aloud Award for her picture book, Escargot. Dashka’s bestselling true crime narrative, The 57 Bus, has received dozens of accolades, including the 2018 Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association, the 2018 Beatty Award from the California Library Association, the California Book Award Gold Award for Young Adult Literature, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. In 2021, The 57 Bus was named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time.