All About Art

A Navy brat, Art was born in Honolulu, where he lived for his first 7 months. Art and his family moved often, sometimes more than once a year. Art attended 14 different schools on three continents before he graduated high school.

Art’s first children’s book, The Creator’s Game, a story about a young lacrosse player, was published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press in 2013. Since then, he has published a number of other books and short stories for children. His most recent book, All the Stars in the Sky, was published in October 2025 by Simon & Schuster. It won the Minnesota Book Award in Children’s Literature in 2026.

Art, the 2023-24 McKnight Fellow in Children’s Literature and a 2025 Millay Arts Fellow, has been a teaching artist for The Loft Literary Center, All My Relations Arts and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.

Before writing children’s books, Art was a writer and editor at magazines and newspapers all over the United States. After his journalism career, Art served as the first executive director of the Wilma Mankiller Foundation in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

Now, Art splits his time between his home in Minneapolis and his cabin in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.

Author photo by Jaida Grey Eagle

All About Art

A Navy brat, Art was born in Honolulu, where he lived for his first 7 months. Art and his family moved often, sometimes more than once a year. Art attended 14 different schools on three continents before he graduated high school.

Art’s first children’s book, The Creator’s Game, a story about a young lacrosse player, was published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press in 2013. Since then, he has published a number of other books and short stories for children. His most recent book, All the Stars in the Sky, was published in October 2025 by Simon & Schuster. It won the 2026 Minnesota Book Award in Children’s Literature.

Art, the 2023-24 McKnight Fellow in Children’s Literature and a 2025 Millay Arts Fellow, has been a teaching artist for The Loft Literary Center, All My Relations Arts and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.

Before writing children’s books, Art was a writer and editor at magazines and newspapers all over the United States. After his journalism career, Art served as the first executive director of the Wilma Mankiller Foundation in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

Now, Art splits his time between his home in Minneapolis and his cabin in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.

Author photo by Jaida Grey Eagle

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