Orchard Books

Hello! I write chapter books, middle grade books, and YA books (under the name M.C. Atwood), and teach creative writing and publishing at Rowan University. I LOVE doing all of that. And when I’m not writing or teaching, I’m going to haunted houses, eating (dairy free!) ice cream, and/or diving into magical worlds feet-first. I’m also hanging out with my two cats–and by hanging out, I mean doing whatever they say. What? They talk to me! That’s normal. . . right?

Natalie Andrewson is a comic artist, printmaker and illustrator. She’s made short form comics with Peow Studio, Shortbox and BOOM! Studios. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Hazlitt, and The New Yorker and she’s done narrative work for Cartoon Network, Dreamworks, Titmouse and Oculus. She likes to make Risograph comics and prints and attend comic festivals in her spare time. The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is her first graphic novel.