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Photo Credit: Stefani Chabot, 2015

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Super Short Bio (84 words):

New York Times Bestselling author and self-proclaimed giraffe suspicioner, Heidi Schulz, lies to children for fun and profit. She is best known for her bestselling novel for middle grade readers, Hook’s Revenge, published by Little Brown Books, and her picture book Giraffes Ruin Everything, published by Bloomsbury Kids. When she is not writing, Heidi can be found in her Salem, Oregon home attempting to corral her two unwieldy dogs, sewing herself yet another fit-and-flare dress, or working through her bottomless stack of nightstand books.

Short Bio (122 words):

New York Times Bestselling author and self-proclaimed giraffe suspicioner, Heidi Schulz, lies to children for fun and profit. Her debut novel for middle grade readers, Hook’s Revenge, published by Little Brown Books, is a New York Times Bestseller, a Bank Street Best book, among the New York Public Library’s Top 100 Titles for Children in 2014, a Scripp’s National Spelling Bee book club selection, and an OCTE Oregon Spirit Honor Book. A sequel,Hook’s Revenge: The Pirate Code, was published in 2015 followed by her picture book debut, Giraffes Ruin Everything Bloomsbury Kids), in August 2016. Her short story for children, The Day the Puddles Stomped Back, can be found in Oregon Reads Aloud, an anthology to benefit S.M.A.R.T. (Start Making A Reader Today).

Long Bio (414 words):

New York Times Bestselling author Heidi Schulz is a bit of a riddle, even to herself. Her high school career aptitude test suggested she would be an excellent air-traffic controller, possibly because she is always thinking of a million things at once. She enjoys cooking but hates having to cook, appreciates the outdoors but thinks it could only be improved by universal internet access, and loves creating spreadsheets almost as much as she loves creating new worlds on paper.

Heidi currently lives in the same Oregon community in which she was raised, although she did take a much beloved three-year break with her family to live in Maryland—where she developed a taste for Old Bay seasoning. She currently lives in Salem, Oregon.

Heidi worked in accounting until the birth of her child, at which point she chose to pursue a career in playing Barbies and scraping Playdoh out of the carpet. After many years, she was promoted to head chauffeur and frequent co-conspirator. These days, Heidi’s adult kiddo does their own driving, but has not aged out of the need for a partner in shenanigans.

In 2012, Heidi embarked on a new career as a professional author, finishing the manuscript that would become her first published book, Hook’s Revenge. No one was more surprised than she to see it sell to Disney-Hyperion after an aggressive, five-house auction.

In addition to writing children’s books, Heidi teaches craft and professional development workshops to writers and educators and writing skills to kids in classroom visits—both in person and via Skype. She was a key figure in planning Portland, Oregon’s Wordstock Literary Festival in 2013—and still serves on its advisory board, and was a founding member of Kids Author Carnival, put on in conjunction with the New York Public Library.

Heidi’s debut novel for middle grade readers, Hook’s Revenge, has been praised for its balance of laugh-out-loud humor and heartfelt emotion. It is a New York Times bestseller, a Bank Street Best book, among the New York Public Library’s Top 100 Titles for Children in 2014, a Scripp’s National Spelling Bee book club selection, and an OCTE Oregon Spirit Honor Book. Little Brown Books published a sequel, Hook’s Revenge: The Pirate Code, in 2105. Bloomsbury Kids published Heidi’s picture book debut, Giraffes Ruin Everything, in August 2016. Her short story for children, The Day the Puddles Stomped Back, can be found in Oregon Reads Aloud, an anthology to benefit S.M.A.R.T. (Start Making A Reader Today).

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