Laurel Holliday, formerly a college teacher, editor, and psychotherapist, now writes full time in Seattle. She is the award-winning author of four books in the Children of Conflict Series: Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries; Children of "The Troubles": Our Lives in the Crossfire of Northern Ireland; Children of Israel, Children of Palestine: Our Own True Stories, and Children of the Dream: Our Own Stories of Growing Up Black in America. Ms. Holliday is also the author of Heartsongs, an international collection of young girls' diaries, which won a Best Book for Young Adults Award from the American Library Association.
