Joanna H. Kraus is an award-winning playwright of 20 produced and published plays. The Ice Wolf (Dramatic Publishing) and Remember My Name (Samuel French/Concord Theatricals) were both produced off-off Broadway. The former appears in several anthologies and has a Spanish version. Her latest script is Champion (Leicester Bay Theatricals). Kraus received the Charlotte Chorpenning Cup and the Distinguished Play Award from AATE. Her work has been produced internationally. She has written numerous articles, interviews and reviews for the media, and for two decades was a columnist for the Bay Area News Group. In addition, she has received commissions to dramatize history; among them, Sunday Gold and Angel in the Night (Dramatic Publishing). Books include Tall Boy’s Journey (Carolrhoda/Lerner), A Night of Tamales and Roses (Shenanigan Books), Mean to Be Free and Secrets, both with resource material by Cecily O'Neill (Harper Collins, UK), Blue Toboggan (Mascot Books) and Dog on Trial (Mirror Publishing). Kraus lives in southern California and is a member of The Dramatists Guild, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and is professor emerita of Brockport State University of New York.
