Joanna H. Kraus is an award-winning playwright of 20 produced and published plays. The Ice Wolf (Dramatic Publishing) and Remember My Name (Samuel French/Concord Theatricals) have both been produced off-off-Broadway, and the former appears in several anthologies and has a Spanish version. Her latest script is Champion (Leicester Bay Theatricals). Kraus has received the Charlotte Chorpenning Cup and the Distinguished Play Award from AATE, and her work has been produced internationally. She has written numerous articles and reviews for the media and, for two decades, was a columnist for the Bay Area News Group. In addition, she has received commissions to dramatize history, among them Sunday Gold and Angel in the Night (both with Dramatic Publishing). Kraus' books include Tall Boy’s Journey (Carolrhoda/Lerner), A Night of Tamales and Roses (Shenanigan Books), Blue Toboggan (Mascot Books), Dog on Trial (Mirror Publishing) and Mean to Be Free and Secrets, both with resource material by Cecily O'Neill (Harper Collins, UK). Kraus lives in southern California and is a member of The Dramatists Guild and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and she is professor emerita of Brockport State University of New York.
