Amy Alznauer

Amy Alznauer is the award-winning author of books for young readers. Her debut middle-grade novel, Where the Wild Horses Are, is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and received starred reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal. Inspired by Amy’s life in a Deaf-hearing family and her daughter's journey to gentle a wild mustang. Out October 13, 2026 from Neal Porter Books / Holiday House.

Amy’s acclaimed picture books include The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor, a New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2020; The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity, a Booklist Top Ten Biography; and The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice, winner of the 2026 Mathical Book Prize and a Best Book of the Year selection from Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and the Chicago, New York, and Evanston public libraries.

A recipient of the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction and the Christopher Award, Amy is also a mathematics lecturer at Northwestern University. She divides her time between Chicago and rural Pennsylvania, where her daughter’s horse, Dragonfly, lives—and where many of Amy’s stories begin. Find out more at amyalz dot com