Book Launch: Where the Wild Horses Are by Amy Alznauer

Amy Alznauer is the recipient of the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction and the Christopher Award. She is the author of several acclaimed children’s books, including 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 (Candlewick, 2025), which was selected as a Best Book of the Year by Evanston, Chicago, and New York Public Libraries, Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, and Kirkus, and just won the 2026 Mathical Award. A curator of the Emory University exhibition At the Crossroads: with Benny Andrews, Alice Walker, and Flannery O'Connor, and a mathematics lecturer at Northwestern University, she is currently at work on two middle-grade novels under contract with Neal Porter Books. The first of which, a Junior Library Guild Gold Selection - Where the Wild Horses Are - is forthcoming in October 2026. Learn more at www.amyalz.com Amy splits her time between Chicago, where she lives with her husband, teenage daughter, and two dogs; Pennsylvania, where she grew up and where her daughter’s horse Dragonfly lives; Florida, where her extended family lives; Austin, TX where her teenage son lives; and all the various towns where her friends, cousins, and collaborators live, Rochester, Denver, D.C., Port Angeles, Altadena, New York … Whew!