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About Laura Shovan

Laura Shovan is an American author and poet.

Since 2002, Shovan has participated in the Artist in Education program for the Maryland State Arts Council. Shovan was the 24th writer-in-residence for the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society in Maryland, and she visited and taught at local schools as part of the program.

Her poetry chapbook, Mountain, Log, Salt, and Stone won the inaugural Clarinda Harriss Poetry Prize and was published by CityLit Press in 2010. Her debut novel for children was the middle grade verse book, The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary. In 2016, the book won the Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Award (Cybils Award) for poetry. Shovan's book, Takedown, was published in 2018. The book was selected for the American Library Association's Amelia Bloomer List, a feminist book project. It was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection.

Laura Shovan writes about Children's fiction, Schools, Juvenile fiction, Friendship, fiction, Friendship, and Fiction. Their best-known work is Place at the Table.

On FindMyTBR we track 1 book by Laura Shovan, 1 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.