Molly Beth Griffin is the author of several picture books including Ten Beautiful Things and Rhoda’s Rock Hunt, the YA novel Silhouette of a Sparrow, two poetry chapbooks, and a series of beginning readers. She is a teaching artist at The Loft Literary Center and a graduate of Hamline University’s MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She critiques manuscripts, visits schools, and hosts a monthly Picture Book Salon in Minneapolis, where she lives with her partner and their two children.