Kristin O’Donnell Tubb is the author of The Decomposition of Jack (a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection); Luna Howls at the Moon (a 2022 Bank Street College Best Book of the Year); Zeus, Dog of Chaos (winner of the 2022 Sequoyah Children’s Book Award [Oklahoma] and the 2021 SCBWI Sid Fleischman Humor Honor Award); The Story Collector series, A Dog Like Daisy (winner of the 2019 Georgia Children’s Book Award, the 2019 Sequoyah Children’s Book Award [Oklahoma], the 2020 Nevada Children’s Choice Award, and an SCBWI Crystal Kite Award); John Lincoln Clem: Civil War Drummer Boy (written as E.F. Abbott); The 13th Sign (winner of an SCBWI Crystal Kite Award); Selling Hope (winner of an SCBWI Crystal Kite Award), and Autumn Winifred Oliver Does Things Different (selected to represent the state of Tennessee at the 2009 National Book Fair). In 2024, watch for Fowl Play.

Kristin lives near Nashville, Tennessee with her bouncy-loud family. Just like her three dogs, she can be bribed with cheese. Kristin can be found far too often on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Oh, and she has a website, too: www.kristintubb.com.