Writer, teacher, mother, wife, storyteller, Patti Richards has spent more than 30 years writing stories and telling tales. Her first fiction picture book, MRS. NOAH (Little Lamb Books, October 2021) was a Selah Award Finalist, A Northern Dawn Book Award Winner for Best First Picture Book, a Purple Dragonfly Honorable Mention Winner, and a Royal Dragonfly Honorable Mention Winner. Her poem “Alice Thanks the Looking Glass(es)” is part of the award-winning anthology, THANKU: POEMS OF GRATITUDE (Millbrook Press), edited by Miranda Paul. Her children’s work also includes four nonfiction books, and several magazine articles, including a fiction piece in Highlights Magazine and a poem in Ladybug Magazine. She was a Katherine Paterson Prize winner at Hunger Mountain Honorable Mention winner in 2018 and a finalist in 2014, and she's been a Writer’s Digest Honorable Mention winner three times for her picture book manuscripts. Patti lives in Farmington Hills, Michigan with her husband, Gene, and a big Newfie named Barnabas and Willow the cat. They have three adult children, two bonus adult children and one amazing grandbaby.