Linnea Heaney’s lyrical picture book story, A REAL BEST FRIEND, found a first home and publication in a 2011 issue of Hunger Mountain: the Vermont College of Fine Arts journal. The story earned her PAL status with the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. Linnea is also an awardee of the SCBWI International Conference Scholarship.

With her shiny PAL status at SCBWI, Linnea continues to write poems, picture books, and a middle grade novel. Past publications are in regional anthologies, academic writing in early childhood and emergent literacy, and art projects from photography to a Reach Out and Read mural. Writing is a journey and Linnea is on her own road.

MY OWN ROAD: on writing: http://www.hungermtn.org/my-own-road/

SCBWI profile: http://www.scbwi.org/members-public/linnea-heaney