Lori Miller Kase is an award-winning journalist, short story writer, essayist and young adult author. A life-long reader, she’s wanted to be an author since elementary school. But she is a procrastinator, so she did a lot of other kinds of writing before she finally got around to penning her first book. The Accident, her debut novel, was the 2024 YA finalist for The Tassy Walden Awards for New Voices in Children’s Literature. The mother of two grown children, Lori writes from Connecticut, where she lives with her husband, a bossy dog named Joey, and an ever-expanding collection of books.  www.lorimillerkase.com

Awards

The Accident was the YA finalist for the 2024 Tassy Walden Awards for New Voices in Children’s Literature. I’ve also received several awards from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists for “Excellence in Journalism” and The Letter Review Prize for Short Fiction.

3 Fun Facts

1. I once had an article on the front page of The New York Times
2. My first publication was a poem called “I Saw a Whale,” featured in my elementary school newsletter when I was eight.
3. I had a brief stint as a keyboardist in a band called Suburbia