Andrea L. Rogers is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but currently attends The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville as a doctoral student in English. Andrea graduated with an MFA from the Low Rez program at the Institute for American Indian Arts. Andrea has three wonderful children and taught Art and HS English in public schools. Her work includes essays, picturebooks, middle grade stories, and one comic. So far. She comes to the festival with the picturebook "Chooch Helped" and the YA novel"The Art Thieves."
Awards: Caldecott Medal, Walter Award from WNDB
Communities: LGBTQ+, Indigenous or Native American, Cherokee
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