Carmela Martino is an author and teacher based in Naperville , Illinois. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College. Carmela has taught writing classes at the College of DuPage since 1998. She also teaches workshops for third through eighth-graders at the Hinsdale Center for the Arts. Carmela writes for both children and adults. Her first children's novel, Rosa , Sola, (Candlewick Press) was named to Booklist magazine's "Top Ten First Novels for Youth: 2006" and was included in the Chicago Public Schools 2007 Summer Reading List. She has also been published in the children's magazine Pockets. Before writing for children, Carmela worked as a freelance journalist
for the New Catholic Explorer. Her articles and essays
also appeared in the Chicago Tribune and several national magazines,
including Writer's Digest and Catholic Parent.
She currently writes a column for the SCBWI-Illinois online newsletter.
Visit the "For Writers" page of her website for a link to her
latest column.
For more information, visit http://www.carmelamartino.com or email Carmela directly. Contact Information:
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