Jessica Lee Anderson is the author of Trudy, which won the 2005 Milkweed Prize for Children's Literature, as well as Border Crossing. She's published two nonfiction readers, as well as fiction and nonfiction for a variety of magazines including Highlights for Children. While her experiences have ranged from teaching to selling computers to coordinating a vision therapy clinic, her lifelong passion is writing literature for children. She lives near Austin, Texas, with her husband, Michael.