Nancy Antle

Nancy Antle is the author of many works for children and young adults including poems, short stories, picture books, beginning readers, and novels. Her stories and poems have appeared in Cricket Magazine, Children’s Playmate and Blast Off. Her story, THE KING’S CURE FOR HICCUPS, was published in Blast Off (an Australian Publication) in 1992 and received the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Magazine Merit Award.

School Zone, Viking, Dial and HarperCollins, Australia are the publishers of Nancy’s books. Her easy reader, SAM'S WILD WEST SHOW (Dial, 1995) was named an IRA/​CBC Children's Choice book. Her young adult novel, LOST IN THE WAR (Dial, 1998), has been nominated for reader awards in Missouri, South Carolina, Nebraska and Western Australia. It was named an NCSS/​CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies and was a Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year.

Nancy grew up primarily in Utah and Oklahoma. She studied at Oklahoma State University for three years but then transferred to San Jose State University. She graduated from there in 1979 with a BA in Creative Arts.

Over the years Nancy has worked at a variety of jobs -- hotel maid, secretary, teacher’s aide, nursery school teacher, writing instructor and assistant librarian. She has also been a judge and/​or reader for a variety of writing competitions. She recently participated in the Afghan Women's Writing Project as an instructor (see link at right and blog) and currently divides her time between writing and teaching an online course for The Gotham Writers' Workshop in New York City.

Since 1985 Nancy has lived in New Haven, Connecticut where her husband, Rick, is a business school professor. She has two grown children, a daughter, Liz and a son, Ben. She also has a rowdy beagle named Zeke.