Kimberly Olson Fakih

Kimberly Olson Fakih was born in Iowa and raised in Minnesota. She wrote two children’s novels, High on the Hog and Grandpa Putter and Granny Hoe, before she wrote her first adult novel Little Miseries. She also wrote the lexicon Off the Clock and The Literature of Delight, a guide to funny books for kids. Fakih worked in publishing for many years as a freelance reviewer at the New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, and elsewhere. She is currently a senior book review editor at School Library Journal. Fakih lives in New York.