Anna Olswanger joined Liza Dawson Associates in 2005. She represents Devorah Goldman's THE NEW JEWISH FAMILY KITCHEN (Pomegranate), Luli Gray's award-winning FALCON series (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Jennifer Sattler's SYLVIE, and forthcoming books by Jim Carroll (Sleeping Bear Press), Cathy Fishman (Cavendish), Michael Hall (Greenwillow), Michelle Markel (Balzer & Bray and Eerdmans), Zack Miller (Wiley), Margaret Peot (Boyds Mills Press), and composer Marvin Hamlisch (Dutton).

Interviews with Anna appear in the 2007 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market (Writers Digest Books) and online at CYNSATIONS, the blog of Cynthia Leitich Smith.

A native of Memphis, she earned her B.A. with Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, from Rhodes College, and her M.A. from the University of Memphis.

Anna is the author of SHLEMIEL CROOKS (Junebug/NewSouth), a Sydney Taylor Honor Book winner, Koret International Jewish Book Award finalist, and PJ Library Book.

Anna specializes in: illustrated work, both fiction and nonfiction, for young readers and adults, and has an interest in Judaica. Contact her at queryanna@LizaDawsonAssociates.com. Visit Anna's website HERE.