Pat Schmatz

Pat Schmatz is the author of five novels for teens. Lizard Radio (Candlewick 2015) will be available in September of 2015.

Bluefish (Candlewick 2011) won the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship while still a work in progress. It was awarded Bank Street College of Education's 2012 Josette Frank Award for fiction and the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for the midwest. It is a Junior Library Guild Selection, an ALA Notable Children's Book, and winner of the Wisconsin Library Association's Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award.

Other novels are Mousetraps (Carolrhoda 2008), Circle the Truth (Carolrhoda 2007) and Mrs. Estronsky and the UFO (Little Blue Works 2001).