Ingrid law author biography
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Ingrid Law is the author of the Savvy trilogy.
She was born in northern New York on May 1, She is about 52 years of age, and currently lives in Colorado. She also has 3 dogs that keep her company along with her about year-old daughter. Ingrid first started writing to help cope with anxiety. She started properly writing after her daughter was born.
For education she finished 2 years of college, she completed humanities, English, Linguistics, and music theory. She did not complete any degrees.
Her works include Savvy (), Scumble (sequel to Savvy, published August ), and Switch ().
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Ingrid Law
You don’t need a big travel budget to have adventures—just ask Ingrid Law. The author has taken many a day trip from her home in Boulder, Colorado, to nearby small towns, excursions that inspired the settings for her Newbery Honor book, Savvy, and the new companion novel, Scumble.
“When I was writing Savvy, I’d [already] cut back my hours working for the government so I could spend time with my daughter,” Law recalls. “I had chosen a certain level of poverty, so we didn’t travel much, and certainly not on planes!”
But road trips suit this author’s tastes just fine. “There’s really so much around us, and I’m not a terribly demanding person when it comes to seeing the sights,” she says. “We went to Kansas and Nebraska, saw the largest porch swing, added twine to the largest ball of twine. . . . I have great memories of these trips, and the people I met.”
In Scumble, the
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Interview
Ingrid Law talks about the inspiration for Savvy, an imaginative and whacky adventure for ages 9+.
Q: What inspired Savvy?
A: Watching my own daughter, I am constantly reminded of the challenges ung people face &#; the struggle for identity, the enormous physical and emotional changes, the often conflicting voices of parents, friends, teachers, and media. While these challenges may not manifest themselves as hurricanes and electrical sparks in real life, I think they can feel just as powerful and out of control to the young individ navigating them.
Q: What do you think your savvy would be?
A: If I could choose, inom think inom would like to flyga eller fly undan or breathe underwater. When I was a kid, I was convinced that I could see air &#; see its movements and patterns through a room &#; but everyone insisted that it was impossible. I&#;ve always wondered how many things are impossible only because we are told they are.
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