Ann Angel
Ann Angel has written many young adult biographies including the forthcoming Janis Joplin, Rise Up Singing (Abrams 2010). She served as contributing editor for the highly acclaimed Such a Pretty Face, Short Stories About Beauty and is currently working with her daughter, Amanda Angel, to edit a series of essays for Silent Embrace, Perspectives on Birth in Adoption, an anthology addressed to birth parents. She lives in Brookfield, Wisconsin with her family and teaches writing at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee.