New Voices

Donna Jo Napoli is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels, both fantasies and contemporary stories. She won the Golden Kite Award for  Stones in Water  in 1997. Her novel  Zel  was named an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, a  Publishers Weekly  Best Book, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon, and a  School Library Journal  Best Book, and a number of her novels have been selected as ALA Best Books. She is  a professor of linguistics  at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband. Visit her at DonnaJoNapoli. com.