Angelica Shirley Carpenter writes non-fiction for children and young adults and publishes academic books about children’s literature. Her recent titles are Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist (2018), a young adult biography;The Voice of Liberty (2020), a picture book, both from the South Dakota Historical Society Press; and “The Nome King,” a chapter in an anthology, The Characters of Oz (2023), from McFarland. Bushel & Peck published her 2024 picture book, The Secret Gardens of Frances Hodgson Burnett, which reviewers call compelling, engaging, and inspirational. In 2025 Lerner will publish her young adult biography, Arm in Arm: The Grimké Sisters’ Fight for Abolition and Women’s Rights. Angelica is a past president of the International Wizard of Oz Club and she was the founding curator of the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at California State University, Fresno, where she still lives.
Angelica is represented by Abigail Samoun.
