YA author Ashlee Cowles visits Jacquelyn Mitchard's SCRIBES

Host Jacquelyn Mitchard speaks with YA author Ashlee Cowles about her beautifully written "Beneath Wandering Stars: on this edition of SCRIBES, sponsored by Writer's Digest.

About Ashlee Cowles:  Ashlee Cowles grew up in a military family, and as a result she moved 8 times by the time she was 18. Like her protagonist in Beneath Wandering Stars, Ashlee spent her high school years in Germany, which sparked her love of international travel. She holds graduate degrees from Duke University and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and teaches literature and philosophy at the high school and college levels. As a student, Ashlee studied abroad in Spain and walked part of the Camino de Santiago.

About host Jacquelyn Mitchard: Ms. Mitchard was born in Chicago. Her first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was published in 1996, becoming the first selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club and a number one New York Times bestseller. Eight other novels, four children's books and six young adult novels followed, including Two if By Sea, Still Summer, All We Know of Heaven, and The Breakdown Lane. Her work has won the Shirley Jackson Award and the Bram Stoker Award. A former daily newspaper reporter, Mitchard now is Editor-in-Chief of Merit Press, and frequently writes for such publications as Real Simple, Glamour,and Readers Digest. Her essays and short stories have been widely anthologized. An adjunct professor in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, she lives on Cape Cod with her family.

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